Orlando Andico wrote:
Hey Andy,
Call me a GNOME zealot but I always suspected that KDE was somehow, SLOWER than GNOME/Gtk. I could never shake the feeling, although I never could quantify it, KDE on the same box always felt a tad more sluggish than GNOME. Maybe it's their wretched "kicker" or what-not. I don't know, but my trials/tribulations with KDE never lasted more than a day or two. Always went back to GNOME.
Be a KDE or GNOME fanboy...? It's a question that has occupied me ever since the dawn of the Linux desktop. Well... right now I'm using WindowMaker... :-D
It is so disappointing to hear of a *nix desktop regressing to the quality of a Win 9x one.
I don't believe it. That sort of behavior is probably on a sub-500MHz box with 64MB or 128MB of RAM. Even Win2k is kind of crawling on my girlfriend's 1.4GHz P4 with only 128MB of RAM.
Even then, it should only be slowing down and not hanging... a hanging X desktop is an unheard-of incident for me thus far and Mandrake would really really suck (on the level of Win9x suckiness) if it managed to add such crappy code that deadlocks are starting to occur on an X desktop...
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