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LXDE is fast

Posted Apr 30, 2012 7:40 UTC (Mon) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136)
In reply to: LXDE is fast by flammon
Parent article: The Dawn of Haiku OS (Spectrum)

UI responsiveness you are according to has nothing to kernel. With Wayland Linux should become very responsive. I'm using Kubuntu and in not UI related tasks it's much more responsive than Windows XP. Those Haiku guys are simply lying or have no clue. I heard Haiku is cheating (preloading itself into memory or something like that) and that's why it seems to be fast. I recommend to try Puppy Linux which kills Haiku in every term.

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LXDE is fast

Posted Apr 30, 2012 9:15 UTC (Mon) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

How can it 'cheat'? If they're predictive preloading and it works, then that's a good thing, right?

LXDE is fast

Posted Apr 30, 2012 11:36 UTC (Mon) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]

How can it 'cheat'? If they're predictive preloading and it works, then that's a good thing, right?

It has to be verified if it preloads itself or does something else. It's cheat, because when you modify your setup, install third party applications its speed will go away. If someone wants to have a good comparison then he should compare haiku to Linux distribution that's doing something similar. Puppy Linux running on CD is increadibly fast and responsive.

LXDE is fast

Posted Apr 30, 2012 9:42 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

> With Wayland Linux should become very responsive.

Very funny, one more post which claim that Wayland will fix everything..

So FYI, Wayland should improve performance, but for the responsiveness this is more complicated: for example Wayland with server side window decoration&management (planned for KDE) should be more responsive than Wayland with the default Weston compositor and the client side decoration&management.

LXDE is fast

Posted Apr 30, 2012 11:39 UTC (Mon) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]

Very funny, one more post which claim that Wayland will fix everything..

We don't like Wayland, do we? Not everything, but just UI responsiveness and it seems you have agreed. It doesn't matter if Wayland itself is not enough.