[ale] Linux desktop inefficiencies...

[Geoffrey]

In comparison to what?  Can't do IE on windows vs. mozilla on Linux, 
because IE is part of the OS.  I installed Netscape on a win98 box the 
other day and it has the option of keeping it resident.  When you do 
this, it fires up real quick.  The closest comparison you might get 
would be to compare opening up a new mozilla window from the 
file->new->navigator window.  But then again, that's why when mozilla 
crashes, it crashes, when IE crashes, there's a good chance you're in 
for a hard reboot.

John Wells wrote:
> I guess what I'm really getting at is....why do Windows apps, at least in
> the GUI sense, seem to run more efficiently memory-wise than Linux apps
> written in Gnome/KDE?
> 
> Now, I'm not painting with a big brush here....many windows apps are hogs
> in their own right.  But what I would call utility programs (explorers,
> sys mons, etc.) seem to be so much heavier under Gnome/KDE as far as
> memory imprint goes.
> 
> I assume it's because of the rather large separation of the underlying OS
> and X, but I'm not sure.
> 
> I'm really not trying to troll here....just curious.  I'm a big fan of
> Gnome, and on a machine with 512 I'm usually very happy...but trying to
> work efficiently on this 256 meg machine has brought some lag/hogging to
> my attention and I'm curious as to what might cause it, and how it could
> be improved.  Note that I'm assuming there's a common, underlying cause
> here.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
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