I don't know if it's my system or what. Because i remember the reason i liked Gnome was because things opened faster in it then KDE. Then after i installed Dropline and after months of configuration i noticed that things no longer open faster than in KDE. Another thing i notices is when browsing. The browser takes a while to connect, retrieve and load the page. While in KDE it happens relatively quickly(the speed that it spose to)

You think it's just my dropline?

take you lack of responses as a yes.
I myself use plain and simple gnome 2.6. Ive always been a gnome fan, but in no way would I touch a branch-off that would totaly take over my system. i mean c'mon, what the heck is an update utility doing in something that is supposed to be a windowing environment. They should move thier focus to simply making a dropline linux distobution, plain and simple. Might as well be, and there is nothing wrong with the statement "slackware-based" or whatever distrobution you favor.
What they say it is realy is quite different than what I thought it would be. Although all of thier time spent on this project has gathered a admirable audience, its just not my thing.


Or in otherwards yea, dropline might have somthing to do with it.

If you want something that works a bit like Gnome but is faster, try out XFCE4. It´s light, fast and has a graphical control panel.

XFCE is really fast, the first time I tried it, I thought there was something wrong because it just loaded up so fast. It's my gui of choice for my older pcs because of its speed and low memory requirements.

I've never tried dropline, I like plain old GNOME 2.6 as is.

Same here. Vanilla Gnome rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aight imma try and mess wit xfce.
damn i think dropline fucked me up. hopefully when i go back to school i can get some updates

Hm, yeah, you really shouldn't have went down the dropline path.

I've heard nothing but complaints about Dropline, and have also heard that once you go to it, you will nearly have to reinstall to get rid of it, but have also heard success stories of people uninstalling it without a hitch. I'd try to get rid of it and install gnome 2.6, myself.

KDE 3.2 is faster than Gnome, any version. (Assuming you have the RAM. )

I have a GB of RAM and I've always noticed Gnome being faster than KDE for me, as far as startup times and all.

KDE 3.2 is faster than KDE 3.1, but I don't think it's faster than GNOME, in terms of the startup. KDE will always be slower unless you take out all the eye candy

I have always had the same observation as insyte. All of the extras come at a price of course.