[OT] KDE vs. Gnome (was: Is Linux Unix? (KDE))

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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Longman, Bill wrote:

> > > It's not just your iMac. KDE is even slow on a dual 
> > hyperthreading Xeon....
> > I wonder what was slow with the dual hyperthreading and kde? How much 
> > ram did you have ? Perhaps you can mention some kde apps that 
> > are slow (to 
> > open) and I can try it/them out for reference.
> 
> Well, it's all relative, isn't it? I run mostly KDE on that box (1GB RAM,
> Gentoo, 2.4 kernel, nVidia GeForce w/GLX, dual 2GHz). It runs okay. But
> considering the massive firepower of those CPUs, it's pretty similar to the
> performance I see on Gnome on my Dell PowerEdge 600SC, 1.6GB RAM, 1.8GHz
> Celeron, 2.6 kernel with its cruddy ATI Rage XL graphics.
> 
> I've been using KDE and Gnome for a few years now but have been turning away
> from KDE because it's been bloatware for my taste. Gnome was the most I was
> able to tolerate and even then, only the latest incarnations met my <ahem>
> discerning levels of usability.
> 
> You're absolutely right about the latest updates. I think they must have
> tweaked some of the interface code because it's noticeably more peppy.
> 
> > I have a dual powermac g5 and kde 3.2.2 and I'm quite impressed 
> > on the whole (btw I have 512 MB ram). I noticed a good 
> > improvement going 
> > from kde 3.2.0 to 3.2.2 in terms of how long apps took before 
> > they opened.
> > 
> > Anyway, that's my 2 pennies worth :-)
> > 
I  have to add that just now I use kernel 2.6.5 and gentoo (you know wait 
7 hrs for kde to build ;-) since I wanted to wait for YDL 4.0. I don't 
know maybe the 2.6 kernel and source compiling KDE makes a difference. 
It's just the performance of KDE is more than OK for me now (konqueror 2/3
sec first time and less 1 sec subsequent times). Perhaps YDL 4.0 may 
give better performance (well at least you will work sound out of the box 
on the powermac G5). Anyway this was a good thread and interesting 
opinions/comments.