As an aside to this, I've found that loading WP8 is blazingly fast in Xfce. It loads twice as fast on a P233 w/384 megs of ram, running Xfce than it does on a P733 w/512 megs running KDE! Both machines are running 8.0. This floored me!
e. On Thursday 24 January 2002 03:49, you wrote: > > Off topic. I took Sridhar's comments to heart and spent some time > researching which applications executed fastest for use with my XFCE based > laptop. The performance differences were quite striking. here are the apps > which performed best . > > Cd Player - gtcd > Media Player -xmms > Sound mixer - xmixer > Image viewer - gqview > Document viewer - gv > Editor - gxedit > Word processor - Abiword (loads really fast) > Terminal - rxvt > Archiver - gnozip > Browser - Opera6.0 or Galeon > File Manager -XFtree > Note: drag and drop between xftree and these other applications works just > fine. (You can also drop onto icons) It is worth however reading the > manual on xfce on its web site since some file operations in xftree are not > intuitive (not to me anyway). > > These are not always the prettiest applications, but they are fast.. > > derek > >
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