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Changing these 5 KDE settings made my Linux desktop feel faster
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One of the most common uses for Linux is to breathe life back into old hardware. Yet certain desktop environments like KDE Plasma can still feel sluggish on aging hardware. The old laptop I pulled out of storage is a prime example, but here's what I did to speed it up.
Before we dive in, I'm going to issue a couple of caveats. For one, I used KDE Neon to test these tweaks because it's a Plasma Linux distro in one of its purest forms. It's meant for testing the latest in Plasma other software from the KDE community as soon as it's available. The version I was testing and making screenshots with was Plasma 6.5.1. The version you have and its interface may be slightly different.
I also want to note I used a nearly 15-year-old laptop for this test. It was very slow to begin with, which is why I set out to optimize it how I could. Typically, though, I wouldn't install KDE Plasma on a computer this old. Other desktop environments are more lightweight by default. Still, I wanted to see how nimble I could make Plasma, and this is what seemed to work.