The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming ( pointieststick.com )

Pantherina , 5 months ago

I for sure hope for the best.

Especially under load, KDE is a freezing mess. Copying back a backup (under 100GB) and I literally cannot move my cursor.

Meanwhile crashing programs make the shell unresponsive too. Like, there is no seperation?

The performance issues literally are so bad I considered moving back to Windows. Or GNOME with some Zorin/Oeron shell modifications. Probably GNOME, but many apps are unusable and they have no fractional scaling??

I am looking so much forward to cosmic, even though I dont see at all how it should be a complete desktop soon. But Wayland only, written in Rust, from scratch exactly for the modern use case… its awesome!

Like, KDE will never be memory safe, they are bound to Qt.

leopold OP , 5 months ago

Yeah, Plasma isn’t great under heavy IO and as far as I can tell that’s not really getting fixed in Plasma 6. It’s one of the biggest problems I have with it right now. On faster storage it’s not really a problem, especially on SSDs, but on slower storage it can definitely be. I would recommend trying a different desktop.

GNOME is generally heavier than Plasma, but might indeed perform better in the scenario. You don’t have to use GNOME with GNOME applications if you don’t like them. You can easily use GNOME Shell and Plasma applications. There other desktops worth a try outside of GNOME and Plasma, tho. LXQt should be very fast. Enlightenment even more so.

Also, I don’t think memory safety is among KDE’s biggest concerns. Qt afaik handles a lot of the memory management and it is a professional toolkit which has received a lot of testing. It shouldn’t be too problematic. Writing memory safe code is also much easier in C++ than it is in C. Yeah, Rust is better, but it doesn’t seem to me like this is something that’s causing that many problems in KDE.

Pantherina , 5 months ago

Dolphin, Spectacle and probably more have memory issues. This is known.

Yeah I would hate to use GNOME, but 45 is nice and Dolphin in GNOME is totally doable.

I wouldnt use anything piggybacking off Xorg though.