The Speed Factor -- Kubuntu vs. Gentoo

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, June 17, 2008 3:53 am, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Lea Gris wrote:
>> About the atime default, this esayly fixed by editing /etc/fstab and
>> adding noatime to the mount options like:
> ...
>> At last, for the .xsession-errors:

> And for both of those, while you're right that they use resources, do you
> have any evidence at all that they're slowing things down enough for a user
> to notice?  I don't think so.

    Heck, I never noticed.  I was actually quite happy with how responsive
my KUbuntu install was compared to WinXP on the same box.  Now that I'm
back in the habit of shutting off my machine I often decide which OS to
boot into when I sit down.  Games, WinXP and go grab a soda. 
Email/Web/Some games/Watching videos, KUbuntu and I'm up and running
long for XP would be set to go.

    Heck, even on my aged 667Mhz laptop I wouldn't consider KDE "slow"
because of those things.

    One final point.  The SVG background is Ubuntu, this is KUbuntu, how
does that issue relate?  Even more interestingly when I installed
gnome-desktop to try gnome in case I need to give KDE the middle finger
Gnome with the SVG background felt snappier than KDE without.

-- 
Steve Lamb