On 17/11/17 16:11, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Terry Barnaby wrote:
> Yes, the latest KDE5/Plasma is horrendously inefficient when it comes
> boot times due to disk access requirements. With a spinning HDD system
> boot times are really bad (minutes). A SSD helps this but obviously the
> issue is really in KDE5/Plasma. With this aspect improved systems would
> be so much faster better even with SSD's. I suspect the use of the
> QtQuick (QtSlow!) technology is to blame reading loads of small files
> describing GUI interface parts rather than just using C++. With a
> standard fast HDD, a 3 GHz quad core i5 type machine takes much longer
> to boot than an old 400 MHz single core Pentium Laptop with 256 MBytes
> of RAM and an slow 2.5inch HDD running an old Fedora with KDE3. The
> price of bad software "progress".
I agree wholeheartedly, this is really sad.
I have been complaining about everincreasing bloat and abuse of slow
interpreted languages (such as Q-M-Hell) for years now, but it looks like
the developers just don't care. :-(
Kevin Kofler
Also just think of the wasted electrical energy all of this bad software
design/implementation is using when multiplied by the number of systems
out there, not just KDE5/Plasma. Software developers need to be
considering this much more these days. About time for a trash of all the
now complex development approaches/languages/systems back to square one
with new simpler languages/development methods/OS's me thinks :)