HI Guys.

Greetings, I have got a question. I have been searching the Kde Neon minimum requirement but i do not find them. my question is that i have experienced something of slowed down the machine when i use various programs (opera, libreoffice and others) and when happens the hdd`s led stays on until it processes the information. My computer specification is:

Lenovo Thinkpad Sl500

CPU: intel Core2 duo 2Ghz, 2MB cache 64bits
Ram: 2 GB DDR2


Thanks

well, there's going to be a big discrepancy between the minimum requirement of the OS+Desktop (which I'd guess should be somewhere between 256 and 512 MB) and a minimum recommendation based on some usage which depends quite heavily on what you're using it for. Running a browser with a couple dozen tabs can easily chew through a gig or two of ram, but if you only ever have a couple of tabs open to sites which don't use a lot of memory, and your documents aren't very big then 2 GB could be enough to get by on. You just need to be aware that 2 GB of RAM is pretty modest by modern standards.

You could also check on your system's swappiness setting - turning down swappiness can reduce load on the HDD if your apps don't need more memory than you have RAM (google it, there are a few articles around which explain it better).

Thank you Airdrik for your answer . I thought that my machine is not compatible with Kde Neon for being a software 64 bit and i needed more memory ram (4 GB). let me check in other forums about swappiness settings. i will test it!... thank a lot .

Dear KDE User Torres,

I have two laptops at home and let me share my story with you.

One is a LeNovo Ideapad 100S 14R ... a barebones shop ... 64 gig SSD, 2 gig RAM, etc., etc.

On this barebones shop, KDE Neon just flies. It loads quickly. I have ever KDE program ever written loaded on this system and I did not skimp on any of the KDE whistles and bells.

I put LInux on this Ideadpad because it came with Wihdows 10 and it crashed every other ten minutes. It was a living hell.

Now I have a much more beautiful, a much more stable and a much more energy efficient system on the Ideapad and I have absolutely no major complaintts.

The Ideapad doesnot like Firefox, however, and it did not like Firefox in Windows and it does not like Firefox in KDE Neon. Everything is just fine with Google Chrome however. And I will say that I read heavily online and finetuned and finetuned Firefox but still it would crash, freeze, bring down the system , etc.

The other is a Dell Inspiron 17 inch laptop, 8 gig of ram, 1 T hardrive, Intel video, etc. A beautiful machine. I thought that KDE Neon would be quicker and faster and smoother on the Dell with its specs than on the Ideapad. That, however, is not the case. In nearly every aspect, the humble little Ideapad outperforms the Dell much higher leverl laptop.

Now you go figure it out because I surely cannot.....

Oh, the one exception is that the Dell actually quite likes Firefox more than Chrome. Even in Windows 10 the Dell like Firefox more than Chrome. Strange enough.

Saludos grandes a vos,

Marcos Cisneros
Montevideo

OSs tend to be fluid-like in that they tend to expand to fill the space given them. With better specs, it may well be tuned to take advantage of the hardware, but resulting in poorer perceived performance because it isn't apparent what all extra it may be doing.
Some things you can try fiddling with include:
System Settings -> Desktop Effects: Changing the Animation speed will affect the perceived crispness of effects. Enabling/disabling effects can also affect performance. Lastly changing the Compositing settings on the Advanced tab can also impact performance (depending on the capabilities of your GPU).
System Settings -> Application style -> Fine Tuning/Advanced, there should be an option for tuning the Graphical effects based on your display resolution and CPU (though I'm not sure what if anything this does).

cisnerosmarcos wrote:Dear KDE User Torres,

I have two laptops at home and let me share my story with you.

One is a LeNovo Ideapad 100S 14R ... a barebones shop ... 64 gig SSD, 2 gig RAM, etc., etc.

On this barebones shop, KDE Neon just flies. It loads quickly. I have ever KDE program ever written loaded on this system and I did not skimp on any of the KDE whistles and bells.

I put LInux on this Ideadpad because it came with Wihdows 10 and it crashed every other ten minutes. It was a living hell.

Now I have a much more beautiful, a much more stable and a much more energy efficient system on the Ideapad and I have absolutely no major complaintts.

The Ideapad doesnot like Firefox, however, and it did not like Firefox in Windows and it does not like Firefox in KDE Neon. Everything is just fine with Google Chrome however. And I will say that I read heavily online and finetuned and finetuned Firefox but still it would crash, freeze, bring down the system , etc.

The other is a Dell Inspiron 17 inch laptop, 8 gig of ram, 1 T hardrive, Intel video, etc. A beautiful machine. I thought that KDE Neon would be quicker and faster and smoother on the Dell with its specs than on the Ideapad. That, however, is not the case. In nearly every aspect, the humble little Ideapad outperforms the Dell much higher leverl laptop.

Now you go figure it out because I surely cannot.....

Oh, the one exception is that the Dell actually quite likes Firefox more than Chrome. Even in Windows 10 the Dell like Firefox more than Chrome. Strange enough.

Saludos grandes a vos,

Marcos Cisneros
Montevideo

Agreed. I have Dell Inspiron 15 Inch Laptop (16GB RAM/512GBSSD/Intel Core i7) and KDE Neon works fine.