On Thu, 29 May 2014 06:27:50 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 20:15 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > jwm, openbox, wmii, tritium, etc., are window managers that might > > reduce your load. > > Correct, however, it doesn't matter if you run JWM or KDE4, when just > using a browser, on an averaged dual-core machine. There won't be > noticeable performance differences. I've got a Debian install on such > a dual-core machine with KDE4 and JWM installed. In theory, the preceding paragraph might be correct, but in practice, counterexamples abound. KDE spawned dbus-daemon processes often hold 97% of a core hostage. Gigabyte-sized soprano-virtuoso.db files. Neopmuk and Akonadi. All sorts of other problems. http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm I don't talk about it much on this mailing list, but Troubleshooters.Com has a policy against putting any KDE library or anything depending on a KDE library on any of our computers. Back at my home LUG, one of our smartest guys, a guy who changes his DE every couple months to get the most perfect interface, started using KDE, telling me I was unduly prejudiced against KDE. 3 months later, he tore KDE off his system and told me I'd been right all along. I know there are distros that do KDE right, without problems. But my stance is that, if using a given user interface requires me to install a specific distro, I won't use that interface. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140529132041.39b54859@mydesk
