[Lazarus] Linux

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:11 PM,  <cc_ at freemail.hu> wrote:
> "Let's be honest here: current versions of both GNOME and KDE are quite
> slower than XP UI.
>
> It always felt a bit slower - what I and many others assumed to be
> caused by  the X architeture or lack of hardware acceleration - but
> benchmarks seemed to differ.
> Anyway "Linux" UI performance has been on a downhill for years;
> enlightenment 0.16 with plenty of bells and whistles runs perfectly on
> a Pentium 100MHz, but current encarnations of GNOME and KDE run barely
> acceptably on a Duron 1.2GHz (with a geforce 6200 either with vesa, nv
> or nvidia drivers. Of course the onboard sis video isn't any better).
> Enlightenment and LXDE (and other ligthweight DEs) still runs pretty
> smooth; XFCE doesn't cut it since it switched to GTK2 :-/
> It seems CPU-related, as a Core2 notebook with a crappy via onboard
> video runs snappy even with either openchrome or vesa driver."
>
> Maybe this could be an issue worth discussing here after all. :)
>
> The main reason Linux is becoming important for us is to target small
> companies where price matters a lot. This far I thought that Linux would be
> superior to XP possibly even with weaker machines. Now I feel I really need
> advice from those who can compare the two. :)
>
> It looks we can tell our clients which distro and GUI to use, but I need to
> make that decision first. I think it could be for the benifit of quite some
> of us to make a list of the worthy canditates (distro, GUI) with their
> advantages and disadvantages from the developers point of view (support and
> maintanace included. I'd welcome any personal opinion/experience.
>
> Regards,
> Leslie
>
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