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sandingblock
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 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: Up here for thinking. |
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First scenario: With only a PIII 500 and 128mb ram methinks
followed by about a month of configuring, emerging other stuff, tweaking, and trying to get things to work together.
Result: A halfway decent WM thats fairly nippy.
Second scenario:
Result: A very nice WM where everything works together, and is still pretty fast, suprizingly fast.
Can't remember the quote exactly but it's something like this,
fools don't learn,
average people learn for themselves,
smart people learn from others.
Trying to be the third. |
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Freak_NL
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Your point? Comparing desktop environments is like saying that "Orange" is a better fruit then "Banana".. Personal preference mostly.
A 500MHz pc is fast enough for the two major desktop environments, KDE and Gnome. |
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synapscape
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I'm also using a P-III@500. KDE runs really nice on this machine. But i really recommend to add more RAM. Put another 128MB-dimm in it, that should be enough for most things. With 512MB, my machine rarely uses swap and is fast enough for me.
...ermm, except when it comes to compiling... 
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ikaro
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fluxbox its only a window manager.
so that its invalid.
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Stu L Tissimus
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Fluxbox is a WM. It is made to be fast, flexible, and configurable.
KDE is the way for Windows/Mac users to feel at home.
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shm
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| Stu L Tissimus wrote: | Fluxbox is a WM. It is made to be fast, flexible, and configurable.
KDE is the way for Windows/Mac users to feel at home. |
I though like this for a long time (i ran fvwm, windowmaker a year, followed by a bout of gnome usage, then more than a year of running blackbox), but in the end, I found that it call comes down to whatever you prefer. Fluxbox can be made for Windows/Mac users to feel home (hey, I moved from classic MacOS to fvwm, yes, fvwm), and KDE is fast, flexible, and configurable (with enough RAM, CPU doesn't matter as much for KDE  )
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shm
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Up here for thinking. |
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| sandingblock wrote: | | Result: A halfway decent WM thats fairly nippy. |
Well, as a current KDE user and a former hardcore blackbox (precursor to fluxbox) user, I'd have to take issue with that. Fluxbox might be "halfway"-decent for you, but it might fight the needs of someone else perfectly.
That's why we have choice.
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lghman
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:15 am Post subject: Re: Up here for thinking. |
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That's why we have choice. |
And serioulsy that's what matters. That is one of the main reasons I use linux, it does what you want it to. Me personally, flux/kahakai.
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