Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less > resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an > older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. > > Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome > uses less resources. > I tried to remember what it was that I had read about KDE and began to > think, well maybe it wasn't that KDE used less resources overall but > that it used less ROM or something. Doesn't matter. My question then > is, given an older machine that KDE or Gnome can run on, which should I > install to get better performance? > > Thanks! > > Curtis > > PS. Please no rants!!!! You can write me directly in order to avoid > such, if you want. > PPS. I know about IceWM, etc. which use much less resources than KDE or > Gnome. But those don't interest me for the purpose of this letter. Thanks! > > If you are looking for low resource usage, then you want Window Maker (my favorite), or fluxbox, or Enlightenment, or XFCE, or IceWM, or any of the many other lightweight WMs. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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