how to make KDE faster?

Thu Feb 19 20:39:45 GMT 2004

* Dik Takken <D.H.J.Takken at phys.uu.nl> (Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:24:25PM +0100)

> > Why don't you try a 21st century computer?: PIII500=joke. Get something
>>Because not everyone can!
> Besides, it's rediculous that anyone would need more than a 500 MHz
> machine to have a snappy KDE. That's not necessary, fortunately. 500 MHz
> is enough to do all your dayly tasks, and do it fast.

I've got a P500 laptop (ATI mobility) 500Mhz, 192M ram
it's dual boot w2k and kde3.1
suse 8.2 w/ kde3.1 is *much* faster and much snappier then W2K.
At work I've got a similar laptop (but faster clock, 600 ? 800 Mhz) running
Win XPpro. While XPP is definitely snappier then w2k it still takes
forever.

Aftetr the machine has been idle for 12 hours it takes about 20 seconds
after moving the ouse to stat before the start menu comes up.

kde3.2 on my lowly celeron 600 desktop is also hapily and snappy (and that
machine as 256M of ram).

So indeed, as otyher people have suggested, it looks like the KDE rpms you
are using are more to blame then KDE itself.

I would suggest you try the suse rpms (if possible).

Or maybe even switch distro to suse (if you fell like it)

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