Re: KDE 4 Debate
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> 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.
Maybe you've got a corrupt install DVD?
> 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".
You have some serious issue, no idea what, but that is not normal.
> 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?
Onboard Intel cheese wiz shared memory video card on my home rig,
GeForce 6600 128MB on my work machine using VMware SVGA driver routed though
whatever ancient nVidia driver I have that I installed when I installed SuSE
10.3. The laptop, LOL prolly an 8MB card... NO performace sluggishness and
these are not high spec anything machines.
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