[UFO Chicago] Wayland, Fedora 42 and memory needs

[Brian Sobolak]

On 8/14/2025 12:33 PM, Pomona Carrington Hoekstra 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!)

Sway is probably a good next step. GNOME on Ubuntu was reasonable (not 
great) but it's really slow on Fedora.  And I didn't click with Ubuntu, 
so I'll see about switching to Sway, or just wiping and starting over 
with one of the Fedora Sway setups they have.


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

Not especially. There's nothing about GNOME that is really grabbing onto 
me, so I can try something else.

Thanks for your help!

brian


> 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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