[plug] slowdown probs

[John Knight]

What I mean here is that on a distro a year or so old, Gnome and KDE run 
perfectly smoothly but smegging awful now. Why is there such a drastic 
change? Surely the coding gets better with time on these, making them run 
faster?

My mates are using S3 Trios, which are PCI. I'm afraid that KDE is necessary 
though as Aston is also part of the KDE UK Translation Team and needs to run 
KBabel (unless KBabel can be run under WindowMaker, most X apps are 
interchangeable, aren't they?). Plus, KDE is the better Desktop in our 
opinion.

>
>On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:06:34PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John Knight wrote:
> > > This is such a newbie question that I'm almost ashamed to ask it, but 
>how
> > > come new distros always run like bollocks on an old Pentium?
>
>Erm... because it's old?  :)
>
>Seriously, if you're running Gnome or KDE, that will definitely
>explain the problem -- they tend to be quite resource hungry.  I've
>recently rediscovered that WindowMaker is quite nice.  Being able to
>login in 10 seconds again is great.
>
>Otherwise, you might like to check that you're running an accelerated
>X server -- ensure that whatever graphics card you've got is supported.
>A bad ISA graphics card can kill X as quickly as no CPU or memory.
>
>
> > Huh? And how exactly do bollocks run? Too fast to believe? Not at all?
> > Did you just make that up?  Are you a newbie to the English language?
>
>Sounds perfectly fine to me.  I'd suggest watching more Red Dwarf  :)
>
>
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