The Lightness of Linux: Gnome and Plasma in virtual

[buster]

The system my distro has to live in is constrained by my 2 core cpu, and the tradition of using 2 gig of ram. VMWare sits in Win 10 as host.

Because of Fox's insistence on the perfection of Gnome I installed Ubuntu once again. And I used it for awhile, though never happily. I have always found it heavy in vmware. And I don't really like how it does things. But I persisted.

After awhile I decided to also install Plasma in Ubuntu, so I could test each with the same sub-system, and noted the difference. And it's easy to go from one to the other at boot. So here's what I found.

There was a noticeable difference in speed, but as Jason had mentioned in a different thread, with more resources Gnome would probably match Plasma. So the problem I face with Gnome may just be limited resources. But my bias towards Plasma is also a result of liking the way Plasma does things, and the ease for getting themes and manipulating the environment.

Hope the two screenshots work, one from Gnome and one from Plasma.

[ssfc72]

The screenshot of Gnome sort of reminds me of the way my Commodore 128 File manager looked like. :-)