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A very old saying: “With Windows (1.0) you will believe your new 386 PC will fly like a 286 running DOS.”

The same has been true for every version of window over the years. Linux will resurrect old computers and make them fly, especially, if you use one of the smaller distros like Xfce and don't use some of the more bloated distributions, like gnome (and now, apparently KDE). I loaded my desktop with the latest Kubuntu running KDE, and am fairly unhappy with the overall performance of the distro. Might just switch to Mint-Xfce again.

A weird thing that I've noticed is that the plama desktop now runs with an insane number of open files. After running brave for about 5 days or so, I'll get "too many open files" errors when trying to start other programs.

$ sudo lsof | awk '{ print $2 " " $1; }' | sort -rn | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
  92278 2466 plasmashe
  13356 2405 kwin_x11
  12600 86010 brave
  12200 5545 MetadataB
  11374 85976 brave
   9988 1041 Xorg
   8188 4068 konsole
   7958 2557 kgpg
   7788 6112 kate
   7680 2459 polkit-kd
   7291 2880 xdg-deskt
   6930 2092 kwalletd5
   5288 2402 kded5
   2600 86464 brave
   2392 86478 brave
   2353 86396 brave
   2353 86382 brave
   2340 86358 brave
   2249 86209 brave
   2028 86180 brave

That first program name is a bit truncated. It is actually /usr/bin/plasmashell. I've seen it with over 180k open files. That is insane.

Here's the same thing on my Xfce desktop...

   5772 1942 rhythmbox
   1881 871 Xorg
   1596 1660 evolution
   1449 1529 xfwm4
   1422 1733 mintUpdat
   1413 1852 evolution
    764 1255 pulseaudi
    736 1669 nm-applet
    630 1864 evolution
    596 1623 mintrepor
    592 1658 blueman-a
    588 1554 xfdesktop
    582 1566 panel-12-
    568 1839 evolution
    564 1989 xfce4-ter
    546 1545 xfce4-pan
    525 1557 panel-1-w
    519 1596 xfce4-not
    519 1562 panel-8-s
    513 1565 panel-11-