[ale] What were they thinking?

[Jim Popovitch]

I agree with that Nautilus is bloatware, but hey, it's also beta-ware
too.  I choose to not install Nautilus and Gnome 1.4 works wonderfully.
 The only problem that I experienced was when opening an terminal it
too forever.  As it turns out this was because I didn't have a sound
card in that box, but had enable playing sounds.  The terminal was
timing out on /dev/dsp before it continued.  I disable sound and have
been happy ever since.  I'm even using it on a P233MMX laptop w/ 92megs
of ram and it still performs speedily.

-Jim P.

--- Jim Philips <jcphil at mindspring.com> wrote:
> As a recent convert to KDE, I couldn't be more pleased with it. My
> machine 
> has 128 megs of ram and a Pentium 333. It doesn't seem slow at all to
> me and 
> I was happy to escape the nightmare that is Gnome 1.4. I had been a
> huge fan 
> of gnome until recently. But the attempts to add on the bloatware of
> Nautilus 
> and Red Carpet they have created compatibility problems that would
> make most 
> people throw in the towel.
> 
> On Sunday 06 May 2001 12:42 pm, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
> > I concur. The new KDE seems to be very bloated, and it seemed like
> > things that used to work were broken.  I'm not saying that our
> software
> > is NOT bloated, but the crux of the matter is that we cannot run
> our
> > product demos on it, because the machine starts to thrash in the
> middle
> > of the demo...
> >
> > Irv wrote:
> > > I got Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat 7.1 in yesterday's mail, and spent
> most of
> > > the evening trying these out. While the installations are much
> improved
> > > on both of them, the new KDE is so slow and bloated that it is
> unusable,
> > > at least on my pc, (PII, 300mhz, 128megs ram).
> > >
> > > I can't wait 15 - 45 seconds for an xterm, or a browser window to
> > > open, or an error message to pop up. I have work to do, so back
> to SuSE
> > > 6.4, where everything happens more or less instantly.
> > >
> > > Are the KDE folks trying to do what Bill Gates couldn't do: 
> destroy
> > > Linux? Or do they think everyone is running gigahertz processors?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Irv Mullins
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