just curious... How much ram will mandrake 8.1 actually make use of?? I used to get a laugh out of the win 98/ME users bragging about having 1gig or more ram. Ive just been running 256 2100ddr and have never had a problem.. Anything more seems like overkill.
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I only use KDE. I'd like to try Enlightnment but I don't have the dependencies and such. I need to spend some time and install those so I can give that desktop a try.
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Enlightenment kicks ass. Better than KDE or Gnome. Looks better and no clutter.
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I use mainly ximian gnome(Red Hat 7.2 466 Celeron and 128 RAM) but i have tried to use the other enviroments like xfce, fluxbox and enlightment, but i have always returned to use gnome. Because i usually can't do something basic in those enviroments. Or i'm just lazy.
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I've tried both Gnome and KDE under several versions of Mandrake and although Gnome has some great features, KDE is my preference. With today's hardware, speed isn't at all a factor, and that excuse is just a cop-out. I seriously doubt those of you with the systems you describe are having any performance problems with your window manager. If you are, it's time to buy some real equipment :) I even have Linux running on a P2 400MHz at work and I seldom notice any slowness with my window manager.
The reason I like KDE better is it's less cumbersome than Gnome to customize, even simple things like putting icons on your desktop. That's not to say you can't customize Gnome, but it's more of a pain than KDE. Also, KDE seems to have more apps integrated into it than Gnome (thus the ppl who use Gnome WITH KDE apps... why not just use KDE?). IMO Gnome has about half of the apps integrated into it that KDE does. You can pretty much make your desktop look anyway you want under either, so that's a moot point (more gloomy?!? huh?). I even used one of the Eterm backgrounds as my wallpaper. |
I've tried many of them. When I started linuxing (about four years ago)I had KDE, then moved to GNOME, then I had a second comp (very slow machine) and used WM and blackbox on it, now with my power rig I have two favs - AfterStep and Enlightenment, and I am anxious to wait till E 0.17 comes out.
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I use fluxbox.
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And NT wont make good use of memory above 512. NT's efficiency starts to level out after about 384-512, whereas XP will keep on increasing linearly to 512mb and beyond. |
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A great example of how good multi-threading an app is BeOS. I dont know if you have played with it, but it is very fast, and I have had my CPU maxed out on one app, but I am still able to watch multiple movies and do searches on the hard drive with little performance drop. This is simply because the apps are designed to give the CPU smaller chucks of info to byte than large ones. But like I said, hard disk performance leaves much to be desired. |
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