On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Norman Carver<
carver@...> wrote:
> One of my students just installed MDV2009.1
> on an older desktop machine, and was telling
> me that KDE appears subjectively significantly
> slower than Gnome or XP on that machine (e.g.,
> when starting apps or moving windows around).
> I have not noticed such behavior, but I am using
> 2009.1 on only much faster, modern machines. Has
> anyone else noticed this? Any settings changes
> one can make to KDE4 to affect this?
>
> Also wondered why this might be so? I thought
> a goal for KDE4 was to be faster/less RAM and able
> to run on handhelds, etc. Guess it uses vector
> graphics in places instead of bitmaps, so that will
> probably take some CPU cycles. Perhaps this is a
> graphics issue? Didn't get all the details, but
> this is a 5+ yr old machine with an Nvidia graphics
> card in it. Can find out more details if of interest.
> Norm
>
I think that KDE 4 is slower due to all the fancy things it has to
look better. I had to disable Compiz on my old Athlon XP 2600+ because
it was very slow with it. Fancy things may include: plasmoids, complex
desktop themes.
Also, applications get heavy with each new version, so the more
applications you use, the slower the computer will be.
I think KDE3 is faster, but that's a totally diferent desktop than KDE 4.
Until I upgrade my machine, I'm seriously thinking on switching to
XFCE or something like that.
Cheers!
--
Diego Bello Carreño
