OT desktops

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:55:05 -0600, Richard R. Sivernell
<res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> List
> 
>   Just some observation on 2 desktops KDE 3.1 & xfce 3.18.x.  I bought two new
> hard drives a week or so back when CompUSA had a special till they are gone, 2
> 250 gig hard drive @$99 each. 7200 rpms. Well this week I reinstalled Suse 9.0 on
> them and used kde to just setup things til I got going. What a pig it is. My
> machine is a P III 533 mHz Coppermine with 750+ meg of memory, with KDE you would
> have thought it only had 64K. I waited waited, waited, sometimes the stuff never
> seemed to start. So quickly I got xfce on, run lickty split, life is good again.
> 

Yep. I don't notice degredation on my high end P4 system with plenty
of memory, but a pig is still a pig. I can say honestly that KDE does
nothing for me that xfce or other WMs can't, but it's pretty appealing
to newbies. A local school is using IceWM on their school lab (30+
ltsp thin clients backed by a Slackware server), and the kids love it.

> I would like all of you to feel a little sorry for here. I took a new contract job
> with Pricewaterhouse 2 weeks ago. That not the problem, they love M$ sludge the XP
> kind, YUK. I miss having severl different desktops, I keep going to the bootom to
> go to a new desktop and nothing there. It get crowded on XP. Working on back-end
> of Lotus Notes, go figure< crying time over>
> 

Yep, even my favorite local pair of independant Linux contractors have
had to sign a contract with the Dark$ide to keep their mixed shops
happy. It doesn't make the bitter pill any easier to swallow.

-- 
 Collins