2014-05-29 6:27 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>: > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 20:15 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > jwm, openbox, wmii, tritium, etc., are window managers that might reduce > > your load. > > Correct, however, it doesn't matter if you run JWM or KDE4, when just > using a browser, on an averaged dual-core machine. There won't be > noticeable performance differences. I've got a Debian install on such a > dual-core machine with KDE4 and JWM installed.
Don't you spread confusion, a standard kde or gnome install "sucks" memory because of that, Awesome or JWM they run with a ridicoulus memory usage, so DE matters a lot on systems with 2gb of memory. If you have daemons/services running in the background it matters, everything matters on machines of that kind if you don't need (ssh, cups, cron, ntp, at, syslog, exim, etc etc...)