[ale] Linux desktop inefficiencies...

[Jim Philips]

On Thursday 24 April 2003 09:05 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2003 03:56 pm, John Wells wrote:
> > I'm really not trying to troll here....just curious.  I'm a big fan of
> > Gnome, and on a machine with 512 I'm usually very happy...but trying to
> > work efficiently on this 256 meg machine has brought some lag/hogging to
> > my attention and I'm curious as to what might cause it, and how it could
> > be improved.  Note that I'm assuming there's a common, underlying cause
> > here.
>
> I'd be interested in your KDE experience.  I can run it pretty well in 128M
> as long as I don't also run some big java app.  Limewire + konqueror under
> KDE makes my laptop crawl.

I run KDE just fine with 128 megs as well. I have yet to see a KDE app that 
swallows as much memory as Gnome Nautilus.
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