On Tuesday 12 November 2002 04:08 am, Alex Polite wrote: > I visited my mother last week to help her setup her DSL > connection. While doing so I realized that her Windows 2000 350 MHz > box is a lot more responsive then my Debian/GNU/KDE 500 MHz box. > > So out goes KDE. > > I tried out the minimalistic ratpoison an ion wms and kind of like > them. At least they are fast. But they don't handle apps like gimp or xmms > to well. Now I'm looking something in the middle ground. ===========
My wife's Windows98 computer is a LOT faster than my Debian3.0/KDE computer also. Her's is a 1.3ghz with 512mb RAM and my is only a 450mhz with 128mb RAM, but her computer *instantly* loads any program and runs many at the same time with no slowdown. I know that her hardware is more powerful, but it's like night and day. Mine thrashes around for 30 seconds trying to load Mozilla, and about 5+ seconds to load KMail, under KDE. Of course mine is much more stable (uptime now 22 days) as Win98 box can't go for more than 1-2 days without needing a reboot. I still love Linux because it's more stable, and Debian in particular, but is there any way to speed it up? Will using something other than KDE do it? - Chip =========== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
