XFCE vs KDE

[Valtam]

I've been noticing on the Internet there is talk of KDE catching up to XFCE in terms of performance and memory usage.
Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to see if there was anything in it, and yeah, they are pretty close now.

A quick LL build of KDE...





Interesting...

[Artim]

How has that happened?  KDE on par with Xfce?!  Not long ago I would have thought it impossible.

[UltraCookie]

That's cool. Always thought KDE looked really nice but never tried it as my laptop isn't the most powerful machine.

[MS]

Doing LL on KDE would require running a simultaneous project, would it not?

[Valtam]

How has that happened?  KDE on par with Xfce?!  Not long ago I would have thought it impossible.

The main difference is that KDE has a massive, almost inexhaustible supply of developers, where as XFCE have just a handful. I really like KDE and how close it is to Windows and the level of configuration available. Plasma is really nice too.

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[Valtam]

Doing LL on KDE would require running a simultaneous project, would it not?

It's just a fun experiment to verify the hype.

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[trinidad]

All those KDE developers, you'd think they could complete the APIs for wayland. I came up on Linux KDE stuff after the mainframe era and moved from Suse to Kubuntu but gave up on their stuff after a while as it grew heavier. Now those reasons all seem unimportant given modern hardware. Of late I have been having a very good experience with Debian 10 gnome on wayland and I expect KDE will get there too in the next two years and be on wayland (not Xwayland) on Debian stable. I wonder how XFCE (which has become very popular on Debian) will deal with that future. I would guess they will continue on Xwayland and not develop any specific DE wayland APIs, or maybe just wait for KDE to finish theirs and port those.

https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers

TC   

[MS]

How does KDE get this popularity if so many people seem to have had abandoned it?

[trinidad]

Plasma, QT base, look and feel, and a few superior applications, and a European home office. A full featured (Suse) alternative DE to (RHEL) gnome. XFCE is a small player by comparison.

TC

[MS]

Plasma, QT base, look and feel, and a few superior applications, and a European home office. A full featured (Suse) alternative DE to (RHEL) gnome. XFCE is a small player by comparison.

TC

Well then, wish KDE to surpass Gnome then.