On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:34:24PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > There was a thread in this list last week where people were asked if the > preferred KDE or Gnome, and the majority of people who posted a reply > basicaly said "neither". They all said they went with a window manager > and no desktop and their machines were the better for it. > > I have used Gnome for quite a while now, but this thread made me wonder > why I do, and I cannot think of a good reason. I have been googling for > a few days now looking for an account of just how much a performance hit > Gnome or KDE are and what the respective speed and comparative > performances are for the various window managers. > > I thought I would be awash with articles, but I cannot find anything > that compares the options. Can someone tell me where I can find anything > on this subject I would take a look at http://www.xwinman.org and check out your options. I find XFce4 (http://www.xfce.org) and VTWM suit my needs fine. They run very well on all the machines that I regularly work on, which range from a 133MHz 486 with 32MB of RAM all the way through 2GHz P-4s with 512MB of RAM. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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