Re: why is the Gnome desktop environment so slow!!!
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Armenteros Roberto
<rarmente1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> All major distributions always refer to Gnome as the
> Desktop environment of choice. I really cant
> understand why this is so since this is such a slow
> environment.
IMHO, this is because an amazing number of people want a Windows-like
interface on their Linux box. Just take a look at a default Gnome or KDE
configuration and you'll see what I mean. Personally, I couldn't get away
from that fast enough, but that's just me.
> Graphics are nice, but performance is
> really bad. The drawing capabilities are so poor.
> Windows take forever to open. Nautilius is just a
> heavy old rino. "I have an NVidia GeForce 2 Ti which
> is supposed to handle graphics like cake."
That is assuming that you are using the optimized driver from nVidia. I'm
guessing from your post that you're not.
> If you guys
> do anything to the gnome environment to make it faster
> or have found a good alternative to Nautilius please
> let me know. Not that I am going to abandon BlackBox
> "I would never do so" but sometimes my sister wants to
> use my computer and she needs an easy environment.
What is it she's looking for:
- An easy menu to launch her applications from?
- A graphical file manager?
- A file manager that's also capable of browsing web pages?
There are many other possibilities, but without a clear definition of what
she's after, suggestions are just shots in the dark.
So, here's my shot in the dark, take a look at ROX (rox.sf.net).
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Jamin W. Collins
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