[UFO Chicago] Wayland, Fedora 42 and memory needs

[Brian Sobolak]

On 8/14/2025 4:54 PM, Nate Riffe wrote:
> Bringing the OG UFOnians out of hiding....

Seriously!  Bacon, extra crispy!

Hope you guys (and any other OG ufonians!) are doing well.

> 
> 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.
> 

I'll try this too. Seems worth a spin.

brian


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