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