Is it worth it?

[Jason DeVita]

I have both ydl and xdarwin running on my ibook.  KDE under darwin
appears to be much slower.  I usually run in full screen mode, and it
takes about twice as long for kde to start up on darwin, versus on ydl.
I also have to turn off all the graphics bells-and-whistles so that the
screen reacts reasonably quickly.  So, if my experience is typical, then
you should find that kde runs much faster on the ydl side.

-Jason


On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Gregory Allen-Anderson wrote:

>
> I don't even qualify as a newbie, still a wannabe!  I am considering
> installing linux on my IMac 500 with 512 ram slot loading (anything else
> important for you to know?)
>
> I have been playing with KDE and Gnome and related apps under Darwin,
> and most of them work fairly well, but they are awfully slow.  Even
> browsing the web seems very slow compared to OSX (and thats no speed
> demon on a G3).  I assume this is partly because I am running the unix
> gui on top of OSX.
>
> I am not a programmer, don't want to be, but do like playing around with
> things now and then.  So two questions before I reformat my drive.
>
> Is this sluggishness not present when running under linux?
>
> Is it stable enough to work out of the box?  I want to twiddle with it
> because I want to not because I have to, and frequently I have to do
> work on the computer, and at those times need it to work period no
> fussing.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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