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I tried KDE recently on Fedora 37, and my workstation kept running out of memory (32 GB) due to its file indexer. I like KDE in general, but its quite heavy for my tastes.

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You can disable file indexing. KDE is taking <1GB on my old laptop with 4G RAM. Its memory usage is comparable to Lxqt for me.

Is the file indexing a back end for Kfind, or for some other?

For some reason KDE on Fedora is somewhat broken.

Kubuntu worked flawlessly for 6 years on my laptop (and it's still going).

Weird, given there are a few prominent developers running Fedora KDE, such as Nate Graham of "This week in KDE"

I hear that, still, with a brand new install, there were various things "broken out of the box".

No idea why that's the case.

I think it got some funding from the EU.

Making it less visible would give the impression that EU funds are unappreciated and are allowed to go to waste.

I'm not aware of amy significant funding from the eu. The only funding we received was nlnet for a few small projects in neochat, okular, kaidam amd kmail regarding encryption support. And dome small funding from the german environment minister for the kde eco project. In all these cases, it's just enough to pay for part time work for a small amount of time.

https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/027705

The 11.5 million EUR funding is the primary driver behind KDE‘s semantic desktop and the infamous file indexer.

Nepomuk, wasn't that ages ago? Ah yes, right at the top your link says:

  Start date 01. January 2006
  End date 31. December 2008

That sounds like a config snafu to be honest, even if it assumes you have swap on

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