How Slow is KDE?

[Collins Richey]

On 1/22/06, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 January 2006 01:30, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > As seen on alt.os.linux.slackware:
> >
> > "KDE is still as slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal
> > plane."
> >
> > That'd be pretty darn slow.
> >
>
> Compared to what? Running on what? Which version kde?
>
> I smell bias...
>
> Here's mine... :')
>
> As a long time KDE user, from the 2.x days to the present 3.5.x versions... I
> can only say that it has dramatically picked up in the performance
> department. The current 3.5.x generation is perfectly usable on hardware,
> where back in the 2.x version it was totally painful to work with.
>

Damn trolls.

I'm one of the damn minimalists, but I can't stomach that type of
malarkey. I've mostly used xfce or icewm over the years because I
don't always need the bells and whistles of a full blown  desktop
system. Yes, KDE or Gnome is painfully slow on ancient hardware, but
on modern PCs of the >= 2Ghz >= 512Mg variety, KDE works quite well
and provides the environment that many/most people expect from a
desktop workstation. And it's a lot better than the early days, as is
almost everything in Linux land.

Now, if you really want to troll, just visualize where we might have
been by now if the GNU heads and Debianites had not branded KDE as
spawn of the devil and set out in their parallel universe to produce
in (mostly) a wasted effort a separate but not necessarily equal
competing product. Just think what a polished product KDE might have
been if the same effort had not gone into reinventing the wheel.

FWIW, I've been running KDE 3.5 for a couple of months now just to see
what others are experiencing. Sure it takes 15-20 seconds longer to
initialize, and I get occasional swap usage, but other than that it's
a damn good product.

QWICHURBELLYACHIN!

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
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