KDE gets a bum rap

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

I am running on a PIII, 500mhz clunker which I overclock to 575mhz. No 
screamer by anyone's standards. I have 500m memory which is OK.

I started with KDE because it came with Knoppix. Along with the usual foibles 
of unstable, I really have few complaints. While KDE applications do not 
spring up instantaneously, they speed-daemons compared with OpenOffice which 
is a "well-regarded" application.

I agree that less heavy applications would be better on much older systems. 
One can, of course, run Debian without a GUI at all and use X with Ice or one 
of the minimal WMs for a few GUI applications as needed.