On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:29:32AM -0700, Armenteros Roberto 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. 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." 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. > "When she uses Gnome she is always complaining..." I > already gave up with KDE by the way. > > Thanks for your help... I love Gnome, but I agree it's slow. I have a 500MHz Celeron laptop with 128 megs RAM: not exactly a dream system, but still... I can (and do) use Gnome without too much annoyance, but for a while I was trying to use things like Nautilus and Evolution--once they fired up (with Galeon running) the system was basically unusable. A file manager I like quite a bit is gentoo (no, not the distro). It's lightweight, and very configurable. The UI is a lot different from the Nautilus/Explorer way of looking at the filesystem, but is way more powerful IMO. James
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