Star WashingtonPost: XFce Looks Good Without Overhead
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 19:09 UTC, submitted by Claudio
Xfce The WashingtonPost has an interesting article on the matter, but registration required.
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RE XFCE is not fast
by Chris on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 22:48 UTC

Ah once again, the false assumption that QT is faster than GTK2. I think it's been said about 16,000 times now; if you can see a difference on a machine faster than 500MHz it's because you read it was different.
QT is pretty fast, but once you throw in kdelibs everything gets rediculous. Heh, I took Mandrake off my laptop simply because kedit, kwrite, and kate all wanted to use noticable cpu while I typed (uncomplex latex text). I found this rediculous: It could have been specific to that release of Mandrake, I rarely run kde so I don't know if this is a pattern. Last thing you want in your laptop is background processes to speed things up later, because what you really want is to keep your laptop cool.