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   Carlos E. R. to Marc Haber   
   Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a   
   17 Feb 26 15:03:12   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-17 14:17, Marc Haber wrote:   
   > Nuno Silva  wrote:   
   >> I haven't used desktop environments in a long time, I remember the days   
   >> KDE was heavy enough to be a problem with, what was it, 64 MiB RAM? :-)   
   >>   
   >> (The problem might have been not the DE itself, but that it didn't leave   
   >> much to run other not-so-light applications like OOo.)   
   >   
   > In these days the memory footprint of the DE stops counting when the   
   > browser is started.   
      
   Right.   
      
   I have seen Thunderbird at 15 GB resident size in my desktop machine. In   
   this laptop, it is no 1.7 GiB. FFx is more difficult to evaluate, it is   
   dozens of processes.   
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
           Carlos E.R.   
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