Solus running too hot, shutting me out off Games on Steam

Lucien_Lachance

remember kde has its own indexer, but can easily be disabled by typing balooctl disable

hsmenon

Lucien_Lachance I would have said "Man, you're gonna make move back to Windows 10" , but I tried that too yesterday and still sucks, gave me errors within 15 minutes of use. I don't know much about KDE, longest was 2 days on any KDE distro, got fed up. But will I have this same issue as GNOME on KDE too?

Lucien_Lachance

hsmenon each desktop has its own issues i guess. if u wanna go with something that afaik has no such thing, and probably is very suitable for gaming maybe the mate edition? i haven tried mate for years though

Brucehankins

hsmenon I haven't had any of those issues as of yet on KDE. The indexer seems more lightweight than GNOME's, not sure if that's true though.

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My current KDE install runs a bit heavy, using around 9-12% CPU and 1.8Gib of ram at idle. I have Mailspring, weather applet, and a few other things I like using that autostart. On base install before theming or anything, I want to say it was using between 800Mib and 1.1Gib of ram and CPU was between 3-6% at idle.

hsmenon

Lucien_Lachance Well, for the record, Debian 10 buster (GNOME) is the only perfect distro I've seen, but maintaining it and adding/removing keys and repositories can be tricky, just yesterday, I accidentally removed all the keys instead of resetting the repos and couldn't find a way to fix it, because APT just lost contact with anything Debian. But when I am careful with Debian stable, it works perfectly. I've tried out every major and many minor linux distros out there, Fedora is a good one, so is Solus and also LMDE (But apt again...).

I've only used GNOME on 90% of all distros I've ever used, so maybe it's GNOME!

hsmenon

Brucehankins GNOME ran only 700MB of RAM, but it's not the RAM usage, it's that the Gnome tracker is buggy and in KDE it is not hopefully, cause I just finished setting up Solus KDE, will post an htop on fresh boot soon.

hsmenon

Brucehankins
It's around Budgie levels of RAM usage, slightly lower than GNOME. KDE seems nice the way Solus has packaged it!
CPU usage and RAM usage is even lower when observed through the system monitor than neofetch for some reason, but it seems great and I haven't seen any GNOME distro run numbers that low! SO yaaay KDE!

Girtablulu

hsmenon via the settings you can exclude certain folders from indexing, I have done this with all my game folders or solus repo clones to ease stuff 🙂

hsmenon

Girtablulu I shall keep this in mind next time I use any modern GNOME distro, Thank You!

hsmenon

I tried my luck with KDE, me and KDE rejects each other like a rejected transplant organ. I tried Garuda, arguably the most beautiful KDE distro and I still couldn't take it. Each time I change a icon element, the icon is a paper icon until I restart the system, the browser buttons built into the panel was an epic fail and each time I have to change my sound device, I have to go to advanced settings which has like 5 HDMI options where I only have 1 HDMI output. GNOME does this so well and I had it with KDE. The only GNOME dekstop I'm going to use again is Debian Stable. But because I wanted to try something, I've finally found peace for now with DEBBIE!

Girtablulu

hsmenon this was reg KDE, I don't use GNOME so don't know how this is working there 🙂

hsmenon

Girtablulu Oh okay, I personally don't understand KDE and am not going to stay on any KDE distro, but thanks for the input. I don't have these issues on Debian Stable GNOME. However, I'm liking Cinnamon, it can be made to look like GNOME, with hot corners, Plank dock and U launcher for search, it still runs less than 700 MB RAM and does not have any issues that GNOME has.

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