06-21-2020, 11:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-21-2020, 11:26 AM by Der Geist der Maschine.)
Let me rephrase my question:
- Idle power is significant (just booting into the console or plain xserver)
- Webbrowsers and other user processes are further major power consumers.
Does the choice of the desktop environment really contribute anything significant on top of above numbers?
10 minutes later: A quick google search https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a...tops&num=4
Power consumption of an idle desktop: kde 7924.75mw vs xfce 7473.46mw. The difference is 6%.
If we run now actual programs, then overall power consumption goes up. If we assume for the sake of arguments 8000mW, then the difference becomes 3%.
On the other hand, interacting with KDE might consume more power than interacting with xfce. Does that contribute anything? Most of the time, one is only interacting with user applications.
Nothing is obvious
- Idle power is significant (just booting into the console or plain xserver)
- Webbrowsers and other user processes are further major power consumers.
Does the choice of the desktop environment really contribute anything significant on top of above numbers?
10 minutes later: A quick google search https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a...tops&num=4
Power consumption of an idle desktop: kde 7924.75mw vs xfce 7473.46mw. The difference is 6%.
If we run now actual programs, then overall power consumption goes up. If we assume for the sake of arguments 8000mW, then the difference becomes 3%.
On the other hand, interacting with KDE might consume more power than interacting with xfce. Does that contribute anything? Most of the time, one is only interacting with user applications.
Nothing is obvious
