On 2016-10-06 05:54, Martin Schreiber wrote: > Recently I had to revive my stone old AMD-K6 PC with Windows 95. What marvel, > that relict with its age-old applications provides a better user experience, > is snappier, more convenient and more productive than my newest Linux machine > with the modern desktops and applications.
We seem to have a lot in common. I still prefer Win2000 for any Windows development (if I must use Windows). Memory efficient and very snappy indeed! For Linux (actually FreeBSD) I long ago gave up on the extremely bloated 'desktop environments' and have for years been using JWM (Joe's Window Manager) - old school to the point, extremely fast and memory efficient (8MB max) window manager. JWM stays out of my way, has hardly any keyboard shortcuts to interfere with my daily programs, gives me a task bar, virtual desktops and a popup menu. I don't need more than that. Oh, and I run this on a Intel i7 3.5Ghz CPU with 32GB RAM. I prefer to use my RAM for actual applications, VMs or the ZFS file system - not the desktop environment. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
