Every panel applet on #Cosmic takes about 33 MB of RAM each, resulting to Cosmic using 2.4 GB of RAM on a cold boot. That is excessive for a brand new, "clean" DE, and on par with #Windows (that has a history of 40 years that needs to carry with it).
I honestly don't understand why it's like that. Most people try #Linux on their older PCs, or a main PC that isn't #Windows11 -capable. Cosmic is just out of their reach for many of potential new users.
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@eugenialoli I've not used Cosmic but my understanding is that they're using a similar architecture for panel indicators that we used on Unity.
On Unity each indicator reported using roughly that amount of RAM, but if you looked at it closely almost all of it was shared memory. The Linux kernel will allocate read-only memory spaces into the process for things like libraries and icon caches that are memory mapped. This shows up as memory for the process but in reality doesn't cause more usage.
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