On 14-Mar-2001 Larry Grover opined:
>> > My reaction was to install KDE 2.1 -- which I'm very pleased with.
>>
>> Better. But, still too much CPU and memory use for my tastes to use
>> it as a full desktop. I have it installed along with gnome and use
>> what I like out of them rather than run up all of the excess.
>
> Out of curiosity, I put kde2.1 on one of my older machines (P200, 64 mb
> ram). In comparison with the WM I used previously on this machine
> (blacbox), the biggest difference I found was in start-up speed: about
> 40 sec to start kde, about 2 sec to start blackbox.
>
> However, once started, I couldn't tell much difference between kde and
> bb, even running two fairly heavy-weight applications simultaneously
> (netscape + star office).
>
> Of course, I might have noticed more of a difference if this machine
> had a slower processor, or less ram.
KDE starts too slow for my tastes. But, it also uses much more ram and
CPU time than I prefer. It still likes to load too much into use at once
for me.
I prefer something much lighter, say XFCE (very light but, I never
figured out how to get it to do what I wanted with keyboard shortcuts,
and while the taskbar was sizeable, it didn't have small sizing increments
that would have made it better for me) or icewm (also very light, really
configurable, great shortcutting ability, gnome-aware/compliant if
desired, now kde-aware). I then just run the apps from gnome or KDE that I
want.
Even at that, loading some programs from either gnome or KDE can start up
several other processes that hang around long after they're needed. For
instance, call up konqueror and it will call up about 10 other processes
to support it, processes that would already be running if using the k
desktop. Kill konqueror and the 10 processes remain and have to be killed
manually.
So, I'm trying to get rid of even those things in KDE and gnome that I
can find other programs for. Unfortunately, there aren't any of
sufficient quality for some of them.
This is at 200MHz, 64MB ram (maxxed-out, thank you very much Gateway!)
and used to be on a 150MHz, 96MB (which I might return to due to this
stupid mobo on this machine). I'm considering getting a faster machine if
I can approach the idea without having to start a household war over it
(there are 3 PCs here now, and used to be 4).
--
Intel: where Quality is job number 0.9998782345!
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