[Wolves] What makes Gnome/KDE slow?

[Ron Wellsted]

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Stuart Langridge wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Deusiah <deusiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Actually this Openbox window manager does make some difference. It's
>>hard to tell sometimes because you can be opening slow programs like
>>Firefox or gnome terminal. Perhaps a solution is to use other
>>programs?
>>
>>Replace Nautilus with Rox Filer, Metacity with OpenBox, Gnome Panel
>>with PyPanel or fbpanel etc.
> 
> 
> That'd make it faster, certainly, but it is deeply unclear that a
> desktop running fbpanel and the Rox Filer is still Gnome. ;)
> 
> Aq.
> 

Part of the reason for the lack of performance is the in many
distributions you are running binaries that have been compiled to run
(or crawl!) on a 386, if your lucky they might have been compiled for a
Pentium.  Now if you use Gentoo, the binaries are optimised for your
hardware (and, Aq, updates can be run overnight. use distcc and they go
even faster)
:)


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