Re: Is there hope to have KDE 4.x lighten up?

2008/10/3 John5342 <[email protected]>:
> KDE4 may or may not be lighter on resources but there are also a lot of new
> things such as for example desktop effects and if you have them enabled then
> KDE4 will feel much more heavy (especially with nvidia proprietry drivers in
> the case of desktop effects). From experience i can say that no software
> really becomes lighter on resources. they just improve resource usage and
> then add new things to use those resources up again. I am not complaining
> but is a general observation that seems to ring true all over the place.



Some annecdotal evidence to be taken with lots of salt:

I had a PIII with 256MB of RAM, and about FC7 time, I installed FC7 on
it without any problems, along with KDE. Recently I popped an F9 KDE
LiveCD into it and it took roughly 30 mins before I could move the
cursor. And I couldn't succesfully activate anything with the mouse
due to large delays.

Of course, there are several factors involved, including the fact that
it was a LiveCD on an old machine with an old CD rom, but the fact
that after 30 I couldn't move to click install to hard drive says
something I believe.

Either way, does anyone have KDE 4.x running smoothly on a recent Itel
Atom type machine?


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