I have searched around online to find an answer to my question if GNOME is still much heavier than the other Desktops out there in 2024. Answering this question is particularly relevant to me right now because I need to use Debian testing (since I need to use the newer version of gtkmm that is available there) and I will also need GTK4 on the system. I want to use an older laptop to work with it on which I so far ran Debian stable with LXDE. On my journey I installed GTK4 on this LXDE system and while I noticed sometimes that my test code using GTK4 wasn't as snappy as the native LXDE environment this could as well be a consequence of me not knowing what I do and because GTK4 is running in addition to GTK2 on this system.
I am aware that GTK usually keeps older versions of itself around even when already using a desktop that depends on GTK4. So I can't really tell if using GTK4 on a system that normally uses GTK2 is more taxing on the system than running the occasional GTK2 component on a system that usually runs GTK4.
In my experience newer versions of GNOME run noticeably quicker on the same devices I installed it on. My impression is that there have been quite impressive improvements under the hood to make the same processes much more efficient while still ironing out pain points in terms of functionality compared with other desktops here and there.
It seems to me that originally much was written in JavaScript which later was replaced by probably much more performant C code. I might be wrong and I have no good way to compare different desktops. Are you aware of any sensible recent comparisons? To me it seems that specifically the performance gap between GNOME and LXDE has been dramatically decreased. (I usually install LXDE on older hardware and go for GNOME where I think the hardware can handle the heavier but more convenient desktop.)
Do I just fail to see what I wouldn't want to be true or is there actually a real reason why my impression is that GNOME has gotten so much faster that it isn't really a much bigger burden on older hardware any longer?
My target system (Asus Pro7 AJK K72Jk) has 8 GB of 1067MHz DDR3 RAM and an Intel Core i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz. It also has a dedicated ATI RV710/M92 Mobility Radeon HD 5145 graphics card with 1 GB graphics memory. In my experience 8 GB RAM should work acceptable with GNOME, but I didn't test it on this hardware yet.
I am aware that GTK usually keeps older versions of itself around even when already using a desktop that depends on GTK4. So I can't really tell if using GTK4 on a system that normally uses GTK2 is more taxing on the system than running the occasional GTK2 component on a system that usually runs GTK4.
In my experience newer versions of GNOME run noticeably quicker on the same devices I installed it on. My impression is that there have been quite impressive improvements under the hood to make the same processes much more efficient while still ironing out pain points in terms of functionality compared with other desktops here and there.
It seems to me that originally much was written in JavaScript which later was replaced by probably much more performant C code. I might be wrong and I have no good way to compare different desktops. Are you aware of any sensible recent comparisons? To me it seems that specifically the performance gap between GNOME and LXDE has been dramatically decreased. (I usually install LXDE on older hardware and go for GNOME where I think the hardware can handle the heavier but more convenient desktop.)
Do I just fail to see what I wouldn't want to be true or is there actually a real reason why my impression is that GNOME has gotten so much faster that it isn't really a much bigger burden on older hardware any longer?
My target system (Asus Pro7 AJK K72Jk) has 8 GB of 1067MHz DDR3 RAM and an Intel Core i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz. It also has a dedicated ATI RV710/M92 Mobility Radeon HD 5145 graphics card with 1 GB graphics memory. In my experience 8 GB RAM should work acceptable with GNOME, but I didn't test it on this hardware yet.
Statistics: Posted by Onsemeliot — 2024-06-08 09:44 — Replies 0 — Views 3