{"id":197,"date":"2016-09-04T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/?p=197"},"modified":"2016-09-05T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:47:30","slug":"qtcon-plasma-5-running-smooth-on-armv7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/2016\/09\/04\/qtcon-plasma-5-running-smooth-on-armv7\/","title":{"rendered":"QtCon: Plasma 5 running smooth on ARMv7!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>Disclaimer: This is no official announcement, I report something I observed and that I found amazing.<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/PlasmaARM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/PlasmaARM.png\" alt=\"Plasma+ARM\" width=\"600\"class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/PlasmaARM.png 1146w, https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/PlasmaARM-768x265.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today at QtCon, I was introduced to a Plasma 5 session running on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardkernel.com\/main\/products\/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143703355573&amp;tab_idx=1\">Odroid-C1+<\/a> (using ARMv7, running Debian).<\/p>\n<p>I was very amazed to see that it runs very smooth, and is very responsive. Moving windows, placing plasmoids on the desktop works with almost no glitch. As email management and file indexing is not really needed in this context, Akonadi and Baloo were disabled. Of course, it&#8217;s not very usable for intensive graphic use (watching videos, image editing, etc), but it&#8217;s alright for other use-cases.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, the overall RAM use was less than 300 MB! (All together!!)<\/p>\n<p>The take away here is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you hear someone saying that Plasma 5 and KDE software are bloated, they don&#8217;t know what they are talking about. They are just wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: This is no official announcement, I report something I observed and that I found amazing. Today at QtCon, I was introduced to a Plasma 5 session running on a Odroid-C1+ (using ARMv7, running Debian). I was very amazed to see that it runs very smooth, and is very responsive. Moving windows, placing plasmoids on<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/2016\/09\/04\/qtcon-plasma-5-running-smooth-on-armv7\/\" title=\"More\">  Read More \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,4,24],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-kde","tag-linux","tag-yay"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>QtCon: Plasma 5 running smooth on ARMv7! - Just some FooBar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.churlaud.com\/somefoobar\/2016\/09\/04\/qtcon-plasma-5-running-smooth-on-armv7\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"QtCon: Plasma 5 running smooth on ARMv7! - Just some FooBar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Disclaimer: This is no official announcement, I report something I observed and that I found amazing. 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