[growbag]

Where else is there to look though? It's a HP dv6645 laptop, 2 gigs ram, AMD 64x2 1900 CPU, Nvidia 8400gs video card with the Nvidia driver from the repos.

Plus it's the same on every machine I've tried KDE4, so it's not the machine.

Even on the default install before I started adding any software it was sluggish. Not slow as in an obvious fault, but sluggish, especially when compared to KDE3/Gnome/E17/XFCE/iceWM on the same machine, same driver etc'. Even Vista runs well.

It takes 10 seconds to resize a window, and if I move the mouse too fast it forgets what it was doing and just leaves it as it was, after waiting 10 seconds of course.

Resizing a desktop thingy is also slow, again if I move the mouse too fast, it "forgets".

It just feels slow, the main menu takes too long to pop-up, windows open and close too slowly etc'. It works ok, but feels sluggish, like driving a truck compared to a small car.

And if it needs a higher spec video card, well, all I can say is Vista revisited! What's the point?