At 2004-06-16T01:26:28Z, Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes: > I tried my system with fvwm and gnome (sorry, don't have kde installed) > with everything else unchanged, memory usage on startup before starting > any programs as about 15MB-20MB difference, that a lot when all I have on > my laptop is 256MB memory. Here's the big kicker, though: although startup takes more resources, launching addition programs will take less additional memory. Launching KWord from a Konsole window in a KDE session is very lightweight and loads quickly, while doing the same from xterm in xfce will take substantially longer. Ditto for Abiword, but with a Gnome session. Basically, if you're going to run KDE or Gnome programs anyway, you're almost better off to log into a full-blown "desktop environment". > For me kde/gnome have their place for M$ refugees but I don't like them > myself. Be nice, now. I haven't touched a Windows system in months, and haven't really used one regularly since the '90s. I'm hardly what you'd call a "M$ refugee" but I love KDE -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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