plasma can be a somewhat heavy DE. But after changing a few settings, it can be incredibly lightweight (only for CPU usage though. For RAM usage, it even surpasses gnome for some reason...).
From my testing, it was the only DE that made my old laptop be able to turn off the fans sometimes while using it. Not even xfce nor cinnamon were able to do that. Only LXQT and Plasma.
One DT is Zorin 17.2 running KDE 5.27.11. The other DT is on Lenovo Yoga 7X Arm64 running 24.11 xle Ubuntu Kernel with the kde DT installed at the kubuntu 24.11setting giving me kde 6.1.5- yes!
The lightest Plasma of 5.27 you will find is the default PCLinuxOS version. I am not saying lighter than xfce, but compared with other distros implementation, and I believe it is down to not implementing Discover, all software installation and updates are done via Synaptic Package Manager which appears on the Panel by default. I've tried their xfce offering but could not get printer installed when looking for a replacement for MX Linux on my lady's machine.
This is what Plasma on PCLinuxOS uses in memory when idle:
When I look again it is less than your screenshot of xfce!
How did you manage to get 5.27.x on Zorin? The default is it's poorer predecessor, 5.24.
By backporting kubuntu as mentioned in the last kde/plasma thread.
Sweet theme,
Did you manually alter any other folders, such the MEGA folder? Or does it change on its own?
I changed it by my own.
i'm on zorin17.2, but i prefer the zorin16 wallpaper that changes by time.
I made a conky widget clock that changes color with the zorin16 wallpaper
Late night:
Pop user ? 
@Michel A few years ago, I used to be a Pop_OS user until the introduction of Cosmic Desktop, after which I switched to Zorin OS for good.
However, I like the theme and icons of Pop_OS.
Cool desktop, welcome to the group @peter32963
What it is:
After 2 days of rage and tears, I finally managed to get xfce to show up on a pc that I put FreeBSD on. I proudly hit PrtScr only to be told I did not have a 'screenshooter'. I quickly pkg search screenshooter and got one to preserve my moment of triumph. (Why lightdm is still failing to start is better saved for another day...)
Why it is: I have an old pc I inherited that is a real devil. It hates Linux (I tried Zorin and antiX). It runs Linux well but on bare metal or even Live USB, it will randomly "freeze" inexplicably and stay frozen forever unless a hard reset of the power button. Or the screen will suddenly go black and a few moments later it boots back up. Thanks to another forum I think I have pinpointed the main issue as a faulty HDD but while I wait on a new SSD I was curious: why does Windows 10 never freeze on this pc (I made 100GiB partition install of Windows 10 to test the uptime) with a faulty disk? So I made another partition of 100GiB and put FreeBSD on it to find out if this pc just hates Linux specifically or anything non-Windows in general.
All thanks to Zorin and this forum of course. Before y'all I would have never known about anything but Windows and would never dream of partitioning even a USB let alone a HDD. I'm not sure I even knew what a partition was back then. You guys are just awesome because your answers to our questions show us how to think like a power user lol.
Does running Smartctl in a terminal inform you that your disk is failing?:
http://www.adeptus-mechanicus.com/codex/smartctl/smrtctl.php
