I have a very cool Core 2 Duo laptop here that runs Linux Mint.
And it is pretty aweful. Would love to put Fedora Kinoite (Atomic KDE) on there, manual upgrades on shutdown, minimal set of apps.
But I dont know how well Plasma works on such old hardware. It is pretty bloated and messy sometimes, Dolphin and plasmashell are my biggest worries (the whole panel and widget stuff is sooo complex).
Has anyone tried Plasma?
An alternative would be LXQt with KWin once 6.1 comes out and it has full Wayland support.
Plasma is actually pretty light. It’s right in line with XFCE.
Yes I also heard that.
I tried it on a real old vista laptop once and it ran terrible, but so did everything that wasnt XFCE. But a core 2 duo might be able to run it acceptably. I say give it a try :)
I’ve got a 15 years old dell laptop and KDE neon is smooth and seemless. Booting takes less than a minute.
Nice!
I use Fedora KDE Plasma and it’s wonderful, but my machine is pretty new compared to what you’ve got there. As for widgets and panels, what do you mean complex? I’ve had no issues with them.
I have tons of issues on Plasma 6 with the whole thing, several bugs reported. Compared to something like cosmic panel widgets, or GNOME or anything else it just seems overcomplex and fragile. I can also imagine this results in lag and performance issues, but idk.
I mainly use an 11th gen i7 laptop :D
I’ve used KDE on a Thinkpad T60, it’s about 17 years old, has 3GB of RAM, and a Core Duo. It ran surprisingly well. Replacing the HDD with a SSD can also make a noticeable difference, so you should consider that if you haven’t already. I also turned off a lot of the animations and effects for better performance.
