Reindl Harald wrote: > a DESKTOP ITSELF consuming the same load - for WHAT task? Good question, but speculating (without debugging, evidence, or experience) is not constructive. An educated guess is often that not all video drivers support being fully hw accelerated (and fallback to software rendering... which incurs a higher cpu cost). One such too-often trouble-maker is nouveau, unfortunately. -- Rex _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx