I think that without any knowledge about the HW of your systems it's a bit inconsistent to talk about performance. KDE 4 is a modern DE with a lot or features that are surely resource hungry, but they are conceived for PC with modern CPUs (at least a Pentium 4 in my experience: a CPU that's 8 years old...). Its memory footprint is under 1GB with everything running (Widgets, nepomuk, databases etc) that it's fantastic compared to modern OSes like W vista or W 7. KDE 3 was very good, but leave it in its era, without fancy desktops, social networks, streaming media services, huge data collections, and clouds. Ciao
Bruce Sass <bms...@shaw.ca> ha scritto: >On July 9, 2012 01:54:05 PM hrvojes wrote: >> On Monday 09 of July 2012 15:48:01 john Culleton wrote: >> > BTW KDE has gone down hill of late. It gets as many complaints as >> > Vista it seems. My solution is simple. I use Trinity which is a >> > clone of KDE 3.5. Try it, you might like it (or not.) >> >> Yes, the obvious solution is moving to obsoleted DE. > >I think you mean, STABLE, not "obsoleted"... Trinity is actively being >developed (albeit slowly), and is a sane, somewhat lighter weight[1], >alternative to the resource hungry bleeding edge which is KDE 4, for those who >want a KDE experience without all the blood. > >Also... it is not a "clone" of KDE-3.5, it is KDE-3.5, plus backports from >KDE-4 and some bits to enable both it and KDE-4 to coexist. > >I do agree that the `KDE-4 broken, try Trinity instead' way it is being >mentioned here recently is uncalled for--it would have been better if a thread >looking for comments with respect to getting it into Debian had been started >by Trinity's promoter(s) instead. > >- Bruce > >[1] Based on my experience of having a couple boxes where KDE-3.5 ran nicely, >but KDE-4 turns them into doorstops... one still runs KDE-3.5, the other uses >UDE + KDE-4 apps... both would be better served by Trinity. > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207111510.58136.bms...@shaw.ca
