From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-15, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:27:46 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >> KDE looked lovely, but was far too heavyweight ...   
   >   
   > It’s not, actually; remember, it’s built on top of the Qt framework,   
   > which is optimized to work efficiently on a wide range of hardware   
   > configurations, including embedded ones.   
   >   
   > When KDE 4 came out, I was able to run it with full 3D effects quite   
   > comfortably on a single-processor 900MHz Celeron machine -- my Asus   
   > Eee 701 netbook.   
      
   How much memory was used, and did it have a, let's say,   
   not-bleeding-edge and not-fully-accelerated GPU?   
      
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   Nuno Silva   
      
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