Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine
Vincent wrote:
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> Gnome and KDE are barely smooth on my 2.66 GHz, 1GB DDR SD-RAM, 128MB Radeon
> 9600 XT card. Perhaps I can tweak some stuff to improve things, but the fact
> they run smooth on your older laptop is bull in my ears. Maybe you can share
> your optimizing secrets.
Gnome and KDE ran smoothly for me, under Mandrake Linux, for years on
1.0 GHz equivalent AMD - I believe the cpu clockspeed was acutally
750 or 800MHz, with 256mb ram. I gave it to a friend who is now running
KDE smoothly under SuSE 9.3 with a 128MB Radeon 9200 I believe - bought
it at WalMart. I had to fiddle a bit to get Mandrake to recognize the
video card. I wonder if the video card driver might be part of your
subpar experience.
Bull in your ears? Hmmmm how does this sound.. the computer mentioned
above was actually my first IBM compatible computer - a 25MHz Gateway,
which came with 2MB of ram and a 80Mb hard drive. This was somewhere
arround '91, I believe. It had a version of Windows, I think Windows 2.0
came out a bit later. I upgraded the hardware regularly - memory, mother
board, video cards, sound cards, case. I saw a guy juggling George
Washington's hatchet on TV - the one he used to chop down the Cherry Tree.
He said the handle had been changed a number of times over the years
and the blade had been changed a number of times. Same hatchet though.
Regards,
Ken Rhodes
100% MicroSoft Free
SuSE Linux 10.0
No AddWare, SpyWare, or Viruses!
Life is Good 
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