[UFO Chicago] Wayland, Fedora 42 and memory needs

[Nate Riffe]

Bringing the OG UFOnians out of hiding....

I've become a big fan of i3wm as a window manger, which is extremely
lightweight and requires no desktop environment to accompany it. It is only
compatible with Xorg for the display server, but I've heard tell of sway as
a drop-in Wayland compatible replacement. YMMV with the spartan tiling
interface and heavy keyboard centricity, but it's hard to beat the memory
savings of just not running a desktop environment.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 7:31 PM Pomona Carrington Hoekstra <
pcarrin2 at illinois.edu> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> My question is -- is it worth the $30 to try and upgrade the memory, or is Wayland likely to be slow on 8gb?
>>
>> 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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