What is kwin_wayland_wr? Also do you really have 6 GiB RAM installed? If not you may be able to reclaim some of it via UEFI if the RAM is assigned to iGPU.
I have 8gb and I assigned 2gb to igpu because I already have 8gb of zram, I’m not sure what difference it would make tho
As I found out recently myself, you should almost always set the minimum amount of reserved memory for the iGPU on modern hardware. The reserved memory is just that— reserved. The kernel still dynamically allocates memory for GPU usage as needed on iGPUs.
Really?, so I should set vram to 256mb and everything should still work fine?
Yes, iGPU can use system RAM
Linux is pretty green at least
Well I can argue with that because Linux systems usually consume more energy than identical systems with other operating systems though they are probably less green due to having a lot of cloud and ad related tech built in.
That’s not ture atleast on my system, I played modded Minecraft for 4 hours on performance mode and I still have 15% to spare, I also watch BCS for an season and it’s only drain 60% on power saving mode
Did you check the consumption on other operating systems?
I used win10 1 years and I don’t remember exactly what the power consumption is like but I think it probably worse because of win10 use more on CPU and RAM for anti-malware and telemetry
Linux systems usually consume more energy than identical systems with other operating systems
Is this true?
Yes, at least on battery powered PCs. Other kinds of machines may be more efficient on Linux but I guess these are mostly cases when there are no big and well developed proprietary solutions for them.
I imagine it varies wildly by distro, hardware, use-case, etc.
I don’t have any information that proves it. I think in this list only hardware matters.
Surely use-case is important? Someone running a server that’s on 24/7 vs. someone running it on a laptop or desktop that they shut down every day.
I was talking about comparing the efficiency between operating systems. That requires the use case to be the same. Comparing different use cases is unfair.
An apt post title, lovely use of color!
Thanks you :D
You’re very welcome! ☺️
less,git, etc should default to color mode on.I’m new to Linux and I don’t know any of these, can you explain a bit more?
Sure.
gitis a command used for programming, much more likely in the future you will useless, which allows you to view/scroll through/paginate text files.To be honest, the intro of manual pages are really good at explaining commands:
man less
Nice hostname
Haha thanks, took me awhile to come up with that name
Neat. What’s your bar setup?
Menu bar? It’s just normal KDE applications menu bar
The top bar I mean. That’s KDE’s built-in bar? Just styled?
Yes it’s just KDE’s built-in bar, no style or mod I think it’s called “Application menu panel”
Wow, okay. Looks pretty sleek out of the box in that case. Thanks!
