On 24-May-00 Stephen King opined:
> Hi,
>
> Is it just my installations or it is a fact that xwindows, and say KDE or
> Gnome, are slower than any win95/98/NT/2000 installation on the same
> machine? I'm trying hard to convince my wife not to go back to windows,
> but I've done three installations with XF86 (replacing MSwindows) and
> none
> of them have came close to the speed of the M$ product. This is very
> depressing to say the least. I personally use the shell mostly, but
> wanted
> to start using KDE, but I can't justify it if it is so much slower.
> Or...
> am I doing something wrong? Three different machines, with two distros
> and
> all are slower using the standard RedHat installation. Anything I can do
> to speed things up configuration-wise? (not hardware - the very least
> I'd
> expect is the *same* speed as Windoze with the same hardware).
You have a dilemma IMHO. Both KDE and Gnome are H-O-G-S on resources and
run slowly (they intend to be the 'Doze of Linux in my estimation). So, if
you're trying to convice someone how much better and faster Linux is, you
couldn't pick anything more likely to prove yourself wrong.
The other side of the coin is, those 2 are the most likely to convince new
users that XWindows and 'Doze aren't that dissimilar. Both can be very
helpful and easy to use, making the transition from M$ to something saner
almost (I _DID_ say almost) painless. Why, Gnome even has a bad tendency to
crash and leave core dumps in a user's directory, doing a very remarkable
job of emulating the M$ blend.
There are other, lighter, faster desktops (XFCE andIceWM to name a couple).
They just don't have the right screen layout and gazillions of icons and
programs attached to make life easy for newbies.
NOTE: this is not intended to make newbies sound stupid (though some are,
just as I am). It is to point out that when one comes to Linux with no
previous knowledge, but exerience with 'Doze, these 2 programs make the
transition simple. If only one could find a way to have a pretty interface,
2,100,465,339 icons, tons of programs and a light footprint, that person
would likely be crowned a god by most linux users (excepting those who will
only use commandline or want a desktop with nothing at all attached).
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