Ironically lightweight KDE runs worse on my 2010 laptop than GNOME does. KDE is sluggish and GNOME is peppy like a modern laptop. A dev type explained to me that GNOME fetches everything that’s needed for a function and caches it ready, where as KDE does lazy loading? Where it only loads what it immediately needs and knows what to load next when needed. And with my older system and slow processor grabbing this from memory with GNOME preloading is faster than KDEs method.
Ironically lightweight KDE runs worse on my 2010 laptop than GNOME does. KDE is sluggish and GNOME is peppy like a modern laptop. A dev type explained to me that GNOME fetches everything that’s needed for a function and caches it ready, where as KDE does lazy loading? Where it only loads what it immediately needs and knows what to load next when needed. And with my older system and slow processor grabbing this from memory with GNOME preloading is faster than KDEs method.
Does that laptop have an SSD?