[Wylug-discuss] Re: what is the difference?

[Scott Hodgson]

John Leach sent a good link to a wiki site, after looking at it i found 
out the real low memory ones maybe too comlex for a beginner like me, 
but i stumbled on something called enlightenment aka E17 (and i don't 
mean that fantastic boy band - i understand people don't know me so for 
the record that was sarcasm)  has anyone used it and is it as easy to 
configure/use as some websites say? does anyone have good reasoning for 
me not to use/try it?

scotty

Nigel Metheringham wrote:
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> On 5 Sep 2007, at 22:18, Scott Hodgson wrote:
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>> Thanks everyone for the input, it is slightly more complex than i
>> imagined, as i thought X was the window thing and kde etc were just
>> how you viewed it. oh how mistaken i was!!! one of the reasons i
>> asked is the laptop i have is a 256mb p4 1.?ghz and the install
>> process was an pain with swapping between alternate install and live
>> cd install (Ubuntu) as it was slow or didn't work.  I also use Macs
>> at work and the xfce look (from website screenshots) is quite nice
>> so just wondered why it looked the same in every distro of 'buntu.
>> I obviously got the wrong end of the stick, but is it quite easy to
>> change how i view a desktop? i.e can i change xubuntu to have the
>> typical xfce look.
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> For a low memory machine like that XFCE would suit better than gnome or
> KDE, and you may also wish to choose other tools that are more
> parsimonious with memory - ie rxvt/xterm or the xfce equivalent rather
> than gnome-terminal (which is a memory hog), maybe a different web
> browser to firefox. Ideally stick to the XFCE tools and avoid KDE/gnome
> as either of those would pull in a great pile of additional support
> code, however if you use (say) a kde program, then you already have that
> support code loaded, so using an additional kde program would not have
> that hit again.
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