[UFO Chicago] Wayland, Fedora 42 and memory needs

[Pomona Carrington Hoekstra]

Would you consider switching to a different Wayland-based desktop environment? Your memory usage problems are probably caused by GNOME moreso than Wayland itself. You could try Wayfire, for example. (I use Sway, a tiling window manager, and its memory usage is truly minimal -- but its feature set is also minimal!)

If you want to stick with Wayland GNOME, I have a feeling the jump from 4 to 8 GB would improve things significantly.

Best,
Pomona

On August 14, 2025 11:37:12 AM CDT, Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
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>Hola everyone -- it's been awhile :-)
>
>I recently came into an older PC that I've repurposed for a Fedora 42 workstation.  My issue is that the UI is pretty slow.  It's a Dell Optiplex 780 -- which is probably 10+ years old -- and only has 4gb of RAM.
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>My question is -- is it worth the $30 to try and upgrade the memory, or is Wayland likely to be slow on 8gb?
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>I realize I can also switch window managers (probably Cinnamon?) but was enjoying Wayland.  Thoughts?
>
>brian
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Best,
Pomona Carrington Hoekstra
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