How Slow is KDE?

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:39 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:55:27AM -0500, Tim Wunder took 71 lines to write:
> > On Sunday 22 January 2006 1:33 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama! 
wrote:
> > > On 01/21/2006 10:30 PM, 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.
> > >
> > > And that's on a good day.
> >
> > Especially if you don't look for evidence otherwise:
> > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1664
>
> Which shows that start time is roughly equivalent between KDE and
> XFCE4.
>

So KDE starts as fast as XFCE4, yes. XFCE4 is still considered "lightweight." 
Not as light as XFCE pre 4, but light nonetheless...

> > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2004/10/konsole-vs-xterm-or-proof-that-kde-is.
> >html
>
> Which only says that konsole eats less memory than xterm.
>

By what other measure does one judge "bloat" than RAM usage? CPU usage, I 
suppose. But I doubt that you'll find any difference in CPU usage between 
konsole and xterm.

> > Of course that's just evidence from folks who hack on and use KDE, so
> > their word, I'm sure, is unreliable. Better to take the word of some
> > Slack-head who doesn't actually use KDE, I guess.
> > ;)
>
> Au contraire, Pierre. I use KDE at work. Sure, KDE hackers have a bias.
> I have a bias. KDE is convenient and integrated. I don't need the
> integration.
>

And the comment wasn't yours, was it?

> 3.4 is a huge improvement over 2.x and, duh, 1.x. I find it useable at
> this point, but I don't know if that's because I have 1.5G of RAM and
> a fast Opteron CPU or because 3.4 is leaner than the bloated pig it
> used to be.
>

RAM and a fast CPU helps everything.

> > KDE works for me and has apps I like (kontact, konqueror, amarok, kopete,
> > konversation). To each his own. (damn minimalists...)
>
> Whatever rows yer boat.
>

But it's fun to argue about it. Certainly more fun than arguing about the 
merits of Fox News over CNN (or vice versa...). And, it's LINUX related!
:)

Tim (aka Pierre)
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