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some examples from my own testing: GNOME’s calculator uses almost 300 MB (a calculator!), and gajim’s GTK4 rewrite uses well over half a gigabyte (quite a lot heavier than element for example, which is electron trash). pinta also got ported to GTK4 and has the same problem.
i’m not alone in noticing this: a hello world window uses over 100 MB if you don’t use a flag that isn’t default (using this flag didn’t help me with the aforementioned programs either).
meanwhile over on KDE they keep replacing actually good qtwidgets programs like filelight and ksysguard with shitty, uncustomizable memory hog kirigami apps that do less. and to what end? a bunch of ugly-ass, difficult to use programs that can’t be customized in any way, shape, or form and use three times the amount of resources in spite of losing features.
perhaps i’m oversimplifying and misunderstanding the technical details behind all of this but regardless my experience with linux has gone considerably downhill in the past few years. i try to avoid it by using TDE and sticking to more traditional software but i’m running out of options because the above is what’s been normalized on desktop linux.
Stand-by RAM usage is not the only metric for judging how resource efficient a program is, though I don’t know enough about your particular situation but generally if the desktop isn’t lagging regularly and apps aren’t getting killed by the OS for out of memory issues then the system’s memory use is fine. If you have lower end hardware (<4GB RAM or a CPU from more than a decade ago) then your experience might be worse.
some examples from my own testing: GNOME’s calculator uses almost 300 MB (a calculator!), and gajim’s GTK4 rewrite uses well over half a gigabyte (quite a lot heavier than element for example, which is electron trash). pinta also got ported to GTK4 and has the same problem. i’m not alone in noticing this: a hello world window uses over 100 MB if you don’t use a flag that isn’t default (using this flag didn’t help me with the aforementioned programs either).
meanwhile over on KDE they keep replacing actually good qtwidgets programs like filelight and ksysguard with shitty, uncustomizable memory hog kirigami apps that do less. and to what end? a bunch of ugly-ass, difficult to use programs that can’t be customized in any way, shape, or form and use three times the amount of resources in spite of losing features.
perhaps i’m oversimplifying and misunderstanding the technical details behind all of this but regardless my experience with linux has gone considerably downhill in the past few years. i try to avoid it by using TDE and sticking to more traditional software but i’m running out of options because the above is what’s been normalized on desktop linux.
Stand-by RAM usage is not the only metric for judging how resource efficient a program is, though I don’t know enough about your particular situation but generally if the desktop isn’t lagging regularly and apps aren’t getting killed by the OS for out of memory issues then the system’s memory use is fine. If you have lower end hardware (<4GB RAM or a CPU from more than a decade ago) then your experience might be worse.
I think, at least part of, the kirigami stuff is for cross-platform, so the program can run on android, linux phone, even TVs.
Edit: System Monitor uses about as much memory as MPV playing a 4k/30fps file (per SM)… I kinda get what you’re saying
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