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That's fine, but the disclaimer is important. I did a quick test for myself by choosing what's at the top over at distrowatch(tm).

- Fedora plasma ca. 1.4 GB (matching your numbers) - MX Linux plasma ca. 600 MB - EndeavourOS plasma ca. 800 MB

Considering the significant difference you either have to go into more details or make that disclaimer prominent.



"Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-)

Could you show the top output for your distros? I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy.


> "Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-)

My bad, I only read the title here and never parsed behind the parenthesis on the original page.

Nonetheless the overall language seems to put a lot of weight on the different desktop environments, not the spin/distribution choices.

> Could you show the top output for your distros? I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy.

This is from MX Linux: https://pastebin.com/7drT8LWt

Not activating the whole Akonadi PIM subsystem by default should easily free two or three hundred MB on KDE. Not sure about the rest.




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