Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
KDE Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
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Performance vs XFCE
by Rayiner Hashem on Thu 15th Jan 2004 17:14 UTC

The author is probably not referring to startup speed, but rather, responsiveness. XFCE is not really a complete DE, because you end up using mostly GTK2 apps. GTK2 is not terribly fact (except for in startup speed) hence you end up with the impression that KDE is faster. On my machine, anyway this seems to be the case.