On Thursday 02 September 2010 04:53:24 David C. Rankin wrote: > On 09/01/2010 01:46 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > KDE is fancy, but snappy it is not. > > Funny, the windows side of the world found out that gigabyte desktops > aren't that snappy either. Wonder if there is a common thread. IMO KDE part of lost snappiness is due to addtional technical layers and latency between intra-daemon communication(nepomuk, strigi, akonadi and what not) rather than resource hog. It can be tuned down to bare minimum necessary. I have not seen the lag anytime but I have a 4GB ram machine. however konqueror and rekonq are far more snappier than anything else. firefox OTOH damn its slow to start. even soffice starts faster than it. I have no extensions installed. Another issue to consider is consistency of lag. on KDE side, its pretty much constant. On windows 7 machine at my work, its click and pray, despite of having a 2GB RAM machine.(1GB is taken by VM but lot is still free). Compared to KDE, that really unbearable. -- Regards Shridhar
