On October 28, 2005 00:38, Duncan Anderson wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > >On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:55:34 -0400 ... > >Who else (besides Stephen, wherever you are) votes for XFCE4 to be > > included by default in all future releases of MandrXXX? > > Yes, I do. KDE is software bloat. Personally I prefer WindowMaker, but > XFCE is fine for newbies. > > cheers > Duncan
To each his own. On older machines, especially those without enough memory (I find 256M is minimum practical, and 512 is better) KDE is horrible. I tried it on a 64M laptop and it thrashed worse than Windoze. I didn't find Icewm to be significantly better. XFCE4 was fast, but man is it ugly! Sorry, but I like task bars and menus. I like the command line too when I can do something faster there (e.g. the immediate response of urpmi versus the atrociously slow rpmdrake (what's it written in, Basic?)). But my brain is too fuzzy to remember the exact name (or enough of it for tab to complete) and the details of the options and arguments (yeah, there's man, but reading that takes longer than doing it in a gui) for commands I only use occasionally. Put KDE on a modern machine with lots of memory and a decent processor, and I love it. It's got a lot of features, and nothing comes for free. But why spend time optimizing when a few bucks worth of memory solves the problem faster and easier. Almost all of the programs I use day to day are on the "Most Used Applications" section (which I expanded to 10 entries), so they're two clicks away whenever I need them. With the exception of rpmdrake and OOo (both of which are pigs no matter what window mangler/desktop environment), everything I use starts almost instantaneously. I love Kmail and Konqueror (yeah, I know you can use these under XFCE4 or whatever). But like I say, to each his own. To those who love XFCE4 or Icewm or obscure-window-mangler-of-your-choice, more power to you. Choice is the wonderful thing about Linux. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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