How Slow is KDE?

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:49:51AM -0500, Jerry McBride took 27 lines to write:
> 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...

Nah. Ya think?

> 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. 

Ayup. KDE 3.4, at least, is considerably faster. I like the eye candy,
too. Then again, the hardware I run it on is considerably faster, so I
can't really tell to what to attribute the better performance.

Kurt
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