GNOME 2.15.4 has been released. "This is our fourth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.16.0, which will be released in September 2006. GNOME 2.15.4 has some rough edges but you should definitely try it to see how well it works." Easiest way to get it is via GARNOME.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Yeah. Let's instead start on of those "Take my word it's faster without me giving any arguments" discussions. 
Well, the rest of us will wander off and not take your word for it because Gnome does have some performance issues and deficiencies in a lot of areas. It's acknowledged privately by those working with Gnome, but never admitted. It's usually repackaged as something else, like 'World Domination as an Optimization Hack' rather than admission of any problems:
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/gnome-deployments-2006/in...
Member since:2006-02-10
Let's not start one of those "what is faster, really, philosophicaly speaking" arguments
Yeah. Let's instead start on of those "Take my word it's faster without me giving any arguments" discussions.
I really thought it was obvious, not worth pointing out, has been brought up again and again.
In my case, the problem is screen (re)drawing. I can see windows painting themselves, slowly, while on KDE and Windows they simply pop up. Since GTK apps are also slow on Windows (but QT aren't), this has to be a problem with GTK (rather than X, for example).
Also, as it has been already pointed out, in the recent survey "performance" was reported as problem #2 in frequency. So, I am not the first one to notice.
I am not trying to troll here, but I won't pretend I am a "happy, happy, happy" Gnome user.
Member since:2006-05-04
Of course, it is *always* good if the performance is improved in newer gnome releases, but I find it odd that Gnome is "crawling" on your hardware. I'm using Gnome 2.14 on a Pentium4 1.7Ghz with 768MB ram and it's running just fine. I also run it on an iBook G4 1.33Ghz with 512MB and it runs just fine on that too. I suspect there is something seriously wrong with your gnome install if it's crawling while KDE and Windows perform just fine.
Member since:2006-02-10
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2006-02-10
If a Gnome developer is reading this: Please, pretty please, can ANYTHING be done about Gnome's performance?
On this aging Athlon XP 2000/768MB machine (which I don't plan to upgrade for some time), Gnome is crawling, while KDE and Windows perform just fine. It's a pity, but I plan to switch to KDE one of these days, just because it's a lot faster.
(Let's not start one of those "what is faster, really, philosophicaly speaking" arguments)
Using Gnome exclusively since 2.4