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FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: Speed and Transparency
michuk writes "PolishLinux.org has published a review of FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: "FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux and UNIX, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.""
OS X is really really snappy with a good GPU in place. Also, try opening 5 or 6 big memory footprint apps in Windows XP and then start testing. Things slow down to a crawl, you can't even get a response from mouse clicks, and overall you just have to close some apps to continue doing anything at all... even explorer stops responding. I've tried this with a PC that had 2GB Ram a nice 256 MB GPU and plenty of HDD for VM space... still slow as it gets, to the point of unusable.
This means that for my workflow: Draw something in Illustrator, copy it to Photoshop, apply a few filters, Export to PNG, Import into Dreamweaver, upload to staging site, Preview in 4 Browsers, Mail notification of the update to Project Manager... get approval of basic look and feel, Re-Import into Flash from Illustrator as Vectors, Animate, Export to SWF, Import to Dreamweaver, upload to staging site, Preview in 4 Browsers, Mail notification to PM... all in about 2 hours time...
Well I just can't spend 4 hours on it because I have to wait for Apps to Open and Close all the time... I need a good multi-tasking environment that won't bog down on me. OS X handles this like a pro. Win XP, well you've already read what happens there.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.