Vote for XFce

[Kristian Rink]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:30:23 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Paulo Roberto wrote:
> > I used to use KDE, and I never heard about XFCE untill it was
[snip]
> > desktop, cause you got so used to XFCE running so damn smoothly
> > and fast, I consider a sin running KDE again.
> 
> It *is* a sin to run KDE.  I've seen it bring 4way boxen to their
> knees. Stupid bloatware.

Hmm, it's amazing, actually: Being back on Chemnitz LinuxTag in
2001, I had several discussions here with some of the KDE people who
claimed that my machine (PII-350, 196 meg RAM, Debian sid, lately)
is way fast enough to not just run but to actually _work_ with KDE2,
so I tried and found it to be annoyingly sloooooooow in quite a lot
of everyday work situations so I was back with XFCE pretty soon.
Guess I could buy myself a new machine, anyhow, but some days ago I
had the chance at work to debianize an Athlon XP 1800+ - based
machine with hard drives which are faster than mine and a whole
bunch more RAM inside (same software setup as my machine here), and
it's astounding to notice that, even on that machine, KDE2.2.2 isn't
_really_ faster, startup of the desktop itself still takes an
incredible amount of time, so does launching of _any_ KDE-based
applications. I really wonder what sort of problem this package is
having... at least, it was amazing to see XFCE3 and the first parts
of XFCE4 running on that machine. :)

Cheers,
Kris



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