Not really; Fedora 37 with GNOME 43 inside a VM with 4 GB/no swap uses 1.9 GB RAM for a fully running desktop.

Ugh, it appears that I misremembered. GNOME takes about 113MB of real memory, and 6GB of virtual.

Still extremely scary for systems without overcommit enabled, but with overcommit, not terrible.

When they decided to reboot their extensions in JS, that pretty much done it for me.

It's annoying that extensions like Blur My Shell can't fix the critical issues with the blurring because they're written in high-level JavaScript and can only use the bindings that GTK gives them.

So I'll have to deal without application blur, but at least the fact that I can blur some things (like the overview) is really nice.