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Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower?
Johan Schinberg writes "Bob Marr wrote an interesting editorial about what many of us have have noticed lately: the three most popular Linux distros are getting "fatter" in terms of their memory footprint and CPU demands for their graphical desktops. Fedora Core 2 isn't usable below 192 MBs of RAM while Mandrake and SuSE aren't very far off similar requirements either. There was a time when Linux users would brag that their favorite OS was far less demanding that Windows, but this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Modern distros that use the latest versions of KDE and (especially) Gnome feel considerably heavier than before or even than Windows XP/2k3. Sure, Longhorn has higher requirements than XP (256 MB RAM, 800 MHz CPU) and the final version will undoubtly be much more demanding, but that's in 2-3 years from now. For the time being, I am settled with XFce on my Gentoo but I always welcome more carefully-written code."
There already is a "Type R" desktop. Gentoo is for ricers.
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then you must be one of those lazy gnome coders:
my could is not BAD, no no no, not BAD, and i cant hear you... la la la la...
what i dont understand is how something so AWFULLY BAD like gnome made it into a distro.
Too bad the X Windows System, Gnome, and KDE all suck shit compared to the Windows GUI.
Windows XP, once you get rid of the playskool look, absolutely flies on comparable systems when compared to KDE or Gnome. The fact is that you're never really going to overcome that because Windows has so many performance hooks tying all the subsystems in Windows so closely together. Telling sign of doomsday for Linux desktop: Nautillus is a crufty file manager on top of the crufty Gnome which sits over the crufty X Windows System.
You can have it flexible, fast, stable... pick any two.
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