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Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.
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I've got a Surface Pro 5 with the dogshit m3 processor and 4GB of Ram, anyone have any concept of how it'd run under linux? It basically folds at any real task in Windows
It would be smooth as butter with a lightweight desktop (probably not KDE). I suggest Linux Mint XFCE edition
"KDE is heavy" is so 2000s. It's been quite a while since KDE is very tight on resources usage. Unless you're running a raspberry or similar, there's no point on constraining yourself with one of those desktops for an everyday use device.
Everything's about perspective... maybe GNOME became SO bloated that KDE now seems very light. :P
Look on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.
Hold on, I was kind of joking, I'm not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.
All good, but I think it's really often a misconception that a DE like KDE, which is big and brings tons of features, must be more ressource intensive than a (feature wise) smaller DE. Which, as the benchmarks show, is surprisingly not the case.