On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/25/2009 02:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > >>>> szal...@szalkai.net schrieb: > >>>>> Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is > >>>>> friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major > >>>>> breakage in KDE4? > >>>> > >>>> I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm. > >>>> > >>>> 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with > >>>> 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the > >>>> time feels like walking through mud. > >>> > >>> turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the > >>> fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly. > >> > >> ...and see it produce a crapload of artifacts during window and menu > >> opening. Still better than a slow as molasses GUI though. > >> > >> In any event though, that's hardly KDE's fault anyway. It's the crappy > >> Catalyst drivers from AMD (I suffer the same issues). > > > > or from a bad decision by the xorg devs to punish everybody for crappy > > intel hardware. > > Only Catalyst has this problem. The open source Radeon drivers are fine > (and of course NVidia's closed drivers and everything Intel is fine > too). It's one of those Catalyst bugs that are there for several years > but one bothers fixing.
nvidia was not fine for a long time - and since nvidia replaces a lot of x and kernel funtionailty within their driver I would not be surprised if they replaced the offending parts too. Intel is not hit, because it is their patch that made their life splendid and everybody else bad.
