On 4/9/25 12:06 AM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
Don't know if that's the sort of response you wanted, but I thought it worth
sharing.
Not what I was seeking, but a good story. Thanks.
I am looking more of ways to measure some nominal benchmarks. I realize
that running a DE and launching non native DE tools such a web browser
skewers memory usage, energy usage, etc. Yet if the data is collected
over many days, those kinds of data skews evens out. The differences
should leave something distinguishable to each DE.
Collecting data for energy and memory usage might be straightforward.
Collecting data for how responsive a DE might be seem probably is
subjective but would be nice to measure something.
I have been using TDE almost exclusively the past few weeks. Recently I
launched KDE 5 Plasma because I wanted to fully update TDE from 14.1.2
to 14.1.3. I used KDE 5 for about two years before recently returning to
TDE. I worked hard at creating a minimal KDE desktop, stripping lots of
cruft and removing many unnecessary packages. During that period I
thought KDE was pleasantly acceptable and more important (to me), KDE is
not based on GTK3 tomfoolery.
Returning to KDE had me pause. For a couple of years I thought KDE was
acceptable yet I was required to notice the difference in speed and
responsiveness. I don't want to knock KDE. KDE is pretty doggone good
all things considered. Yet I am sure KDE defenders will argue that I am
comparing apples and oranges and KDE is "far more capable" than TDE.
Well, I'll accept that debate over some favorite beverages. TDE is just
lightning fast. KDE is not. I still don't fathom how Konqueror can
traverse large directories immediately and no other file manager seems
able to match. I have a 4-core system and 16 GB or RAM. Same with my
primary laptop. After using TDE for a few weeks KDE now seems slow. Not
painfully slow, just notably slower.
I was thinking this morning that as fast as TDE seems compared to other
DEs, that the fastest system I have seen is Windows for Workgroups
(WFWG) 3.11 on my 450 MHz K6-III+ CPU with 256 MB of RAM. WFWG is 16-bit
and designed for 486 CPUs with 16 MB of RAM or less. I well remember the
first time I migrated WFWG from my 486 to my 586. I was dumbfounded by
the huge increase in speed. I never have seen anything as fast since
although TDE comes close.
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