I run linux on a PC with an on-board intel graphics adapter, about 3y old. When I enable some of the "bloat" it is actually more responsive than some of the things that are supposed to be the "standard" stuff...<br>
<br>eg. Compiz stuff, like enhanced zoom (AWESOME tool, press Hyper - Mouse Scroll, and it zooms), wobbly windows... these things goes so smooth (hardly registers on the fairly weak 2.6 celeron CPU), I'd thought I had a 512mb graphics adaptor.<br>
<br>But doing some more basic stuff... I dunno, like scrolling in firefox on a window with some flash, javascript etc. is slow and sluggish.<br><br>Or opening the /lib folder in a file-open dialog box... slow as hell... I dunno, get a text list first, then assign the icons...<br>
<br>So some things are very responsive, and other things are not so. :-/<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Luca Olivetti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luca@wetron.es">luca@wetron.es</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">En/na Marco van de Voort ha escrit:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:41:56AM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:<br>
>> En/na Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit:<br>
>><br>
>>> I definitely don't think it's the X architecture, but rather the bloat<br>
>>> in the desktop environments like Gnome and KDE. I often test the fpGUI<br>
>>> Toolkit on various DE's and Window Managers. I have about 7 different<br>
>>> Window Managers installed on my system. Most of them are a LOT faster<br>
>>> than Gnome or KDE.<br>
>> Probably because they're doing a lot less than Gnome/KDE?<br>
><br>
> Probably yes, but combined with the fact that those teams seem to be more<br>
> interested in developing yet another new internal architecture every two<br>
> years rather than optimize the current one.<br>
<br>
</div>That's sadly true, however, apart from the rough transition from kde3 to<br>
kde4 (which still needs some optimization), it seems to me that each new<br>
release adds functionality with lower (or at the same level) system<br>
requirements, so it's not that bad.<br>
Besides, nobody forces you to use gnome/kde: I have deployed a couple of<br>
really low end machines (they've more or less the power of a 486, but<br>
they're really nice since they're the same size as a vesa mount, so you<br>
can fit them with the lcd) with puppy linux and no window manager at all<br>
(they only run my application).<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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