Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
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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RAM is cheap. Also, don't forget that while KDE might have higher initial overhead, its memory usage doesn't grow astronomically with use. When MS Office gets loaded into Windows, it drags in its own UI toolkit, etc. When KOffice gets loaded into KDE, it makes use of many of the libraries that are already loaded, so the memory usage doesn't grow as quickly.