It's about time...

It's about time...

Posted Aug 4, 2005 20:47 UTC (Thu) by jrigg (subscriber, #30848)
In reply to: It's about time... by hp
Parent article: Our bloat problem

>It's significant that most people don't
>_use_ the "lightweight" apps, though,
>unless they really genuinely don't
>have the compute power.

I tried KDE recently after using WindowMaker and rxvt for the last few years. It was irritatingly slow even on a dual Opteron, so I reverted to my old setup. Maybe I'm impatient, but I prefer the speed of lightweight apps running on fast hardware.

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