Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:41:24AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > >> I occasionally tried razorqt or enlightenment or twm... >> and yeah, they load quickly. And then they are all useless for me. > I run ICEWM with 9 work areas dedicated to specific "tasks" or forums. > A desktop environment doesn't provide me that much extra functionality. > I suppose some of my inertia is due to starting to use ICEWM and *BOX > back when I had a Dell with 256 megabytes of RAM and an 8-megabyte ATI > video card. That machine lasted for 7 years or so. My current one is > over 6 years old. >
On a rig that has limited resources, you are doing what I would do as well, outside the USE="-*" thing. :-D I would use Fluxbox or some other very light GUI. I'd keep it simple so that when I click something, I don't have to go get a drink while I am waiting. And in some cases, have plenty of time to drink it as well. What a person uses has to be based on what it is being used on and what the user expects. All about balance. Dale :-) :-)
