Re: KDE startup (was: Why is Linux so slow?)

From: George Peatty (pttyg47-1230_at_copper.net)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: 13 Aug 2004 18:31:39 -0700

In article <yHdTc.56391$K53.46296@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, tklbw@uxtail.com
says...
>
>|I purposly didn't reply to the other groups, but when I installed SUSE
>|9.1 Personal on a virgin drive on my laptop, it was noticeably slower
>|doing things than when running Windows XP Prof.
>|
>|Don't flame me, I run SUSE 9.1 Personal on 4 systems now, and they all
>|seem to respond as my laptop does. It's not that it's slow, just things
>|like opening Word documents, opening PAN for Usenet, opening email (not
>|pulling it, just opening the cached emails), etc...
>
>How much memory do you have? My experience is that KDE 3.2 requires at
>least 256 MB to be happy. OO is also a bit of a memory hog. Though this
>is much improved, previous versions were even more memory hungry.
 
Skimping on swap space is not advised, either. I have 384 MB RAM; WTH do I need
with
swap sapce? The reality is Linux will swap to disk no matter how much memory
you have.
The good news is, if you install more than one distro, they'll share the same
space.
 
Also, reality is that some things take longer in Linux, and some do not. Most
any command
on the command line is acted on instantly. GUI stuff takes longer, sometimes a
lot longer.
Gnome, I think, is better than KDE here.

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