High resource Usage in Opensuse 10.3

Probably the biggest complaint that remains is the high resource utilisation of Opensuse 10.3. I find that compared to Windows, Opensuse is quite a resource hog. KDE which I use could be the reason, and less intensive GUI's could reduce RAM usage at the cost of usability. In a system with 224 MB RAM, I find that just about 5 MB is left unused after a couple of browsers are loaded. And the constant hard disk access for the swapping takes its toll on the hard disk and power consumption. The solution may be to add more RAM.