[ale] What were they thinking?

[Jim Philips]

I have KDE 2.1.1 and didn't try earlier versions, so I can't compare. But it doesn't seem at all slow to me. Here is what I am running:

RedHat 7.0
2.4.0 kernel
128 megs of RAM
256 megs of swap space
Riva TNT video card with 16 megs of RAM
Pentium 333
Western Digital 30 gig HD 5400 rpms


I will confess that I tolerate a certain level of bloat in order to have more eye candy. I ran Enlightenment for a long time for this very reason. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:Jhubbs at niit.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:18 AM
To: Irv; ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] What were they thinking?



Have we established that some people's new KDE is slow while for others it's
OK?  Howbout this: of those of you who have tried it, how about posting a
message here stating 1) your KDE version 2) your distro and version 3) your
video card.  Maybe a pattern will emerge.


- Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irv [mailto:irvm at ellijay.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 8:26 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] What were they thinking?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 08 May 2001, Jeffrey B Layton wrote:
> 
> > I will second that comment. I've been using KDE since early 1.0.
> > It has been my primary desktop during that whole time. Up to
> > last week I was using a RH 6.2 system (with updates) and
> > KDE 2.0.1. Then this weekend I reformatted and installed
> > RH 7.1 with KDE 2.1.1. The speed difference is VERY noticeable.
> > Doing anything in 2.1.1 is MUCH slower than anything in 2.0.1.
> > My machine is a PIII/500 with 384 Megs of memory and a fast
> > IDE. It shouldn't be this slow.
> 
> The sad thing about this isn't that it's slow - that could 
> probably be fixed.
> Unfortunately, when I posted a question to the KDE forum about this,
> all I got was flames.. A later search thru their own list 
> archives showed 
> numerous complaints about the same thing - all either ignored 
> or shrugged 
> off as "something wrong with your system", but no hint as to 
> what that might be.
> 
> If this were an isolated problem, hey, I'd go for M$ solution 
> #1 - buy a
> bigger, faster computer. However,  since approximately 50% of 
> the posts 
> here and elsewhere report similar slowness, I don't think it's at all
> isolated. 
> 
> M$ solution #2 - calling  it a 'feature' - doesn't work for me :)
> In 20+ years of writing software, never once have I been able 
> to get away
> with that 'solution' - clients expect me to fix my software. 
> Imagine that!
> 
> I have been promoting Linux to my clients, but I think I'll 
> have to back off.  
> KDE was stable, fast, and enough like MS Windows to make the 
> transition acceptable to many users
> (assuming appropriate apps were available or written)
>Â  
> If I can't depend on that remaining true, then why go thru 
> the hassle? 
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
> 
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