Ok, this is so strange..so I thought I'd make a thread. I decided to install linux on my dell inspiron 1100. Naturally, since it has such low specs (128mb of ram, celeron 2.0ghz)...I figured I'd install something "light weight". I went for Xubuntu, which defaulted xfce as the desktop. At first it seemed ok..but became horribly slow. Browsing..music..all so slow and would freeze up. Tons of lag. So I got sick of the slowness, and decided to try KDE out on my laptop. Oddly, and to my surprise, it's extremely fast. Right now I'm listening to music on XMMS, chatting on GAIM, have konversation (IRC client) minimized, and am typing up this thread on konqueror with no problem. Browsing is fine...hardly any lag ever.

So this struck me as completely odd. Either Xubuntu bugged out their xfce..or kde is faster. I always thought Xfce would be the logical choice..as it's known for it's speed..but for me, I'm not seeing it. At this point, for me, kde 3.5.5 is about 2 times faster. Of course, I don't have professional benchmarks or whatever, but as a regular desktop user..kde on xubuntu is like lightning compared to xfce.

Maybe its just my computer? Strange?

-RoaCh

xfce is faster because it doesnt have as many programs running in the background. Theres no reason for this version of kde running faster fair enough knewer versions because the idea behind them is a speed increase is that less programs arerunning . Whats running when you start xfce have a check at that maybe thats whats slowing you down. Maybe compare the two's starting processes???

well this above idea is the fundamental flaw in people thinking about kde.
those processes kde runs in the background are the very this that helps kde run so fast.
i'm glad someone here actually allowed objective reality to shine through the circular concept of "too many processes".
by the way for what its worth i run fluxbox but always load kdeinit also so the kde apps are faster.
back in the day when everyone was mythologising about kde bloat i has kde running like a dream on an old 90Mhz pentium pro machine.