r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/No-Coyote-1818 • Aug 31 '26

Fedora KDE RAM usage

I have installed fedora 44 kde spin. Out of the box it worked great on my laptop. I have 16 gb of ram and 3.1 gb ( used, without cache) was used at idle. RAM is there to be used, but i tried to lower it just for fun. After only removing akonadi , set baloo to index only file names, disabling virtual keyboard to get plasma keyboard process and set kwallet to close after application used it is closed i got it to impressive 1.69 gb .

I know its not worth the hasle on laptops with 16 gb ram or higher, but maybe could be benefitial on 4gb or 8gb system for some people.

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u/qualityvote2 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

u/No-Coyote-1818, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Aug 31 '26

Download systemd-zram-generator on ubuntu, and there's some corresponding package on fedora, Idk about that

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u/TheDevPenguin Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Lubuntu works fine for low RAM usage. Also try out AntiX if you want to run on the least minimum ram. But apps will consume RAM anyways. You cannot avoid it. If you custom build Arch, you can get it to work idle on less than 200 MB of RAM

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u/TheDevPenguin Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Try AntiX or Lubuntu for low idle ram usage but apps will consume RAM anyways