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[Billie Walsh]

I completely agree with Matthew. I have an Asus EeePC. It has 2 gig
memory and a 64 gig SSD running Kubuntu 12.04/32 bit. I do appreciate
the work the devs do, but they need to keep K. I. S S. in mind.

On 03/29/2014 08:07 AM, Matthew Cliffe wrote:
> The "everyone owns a mega computer so resources dont matter" is a
> silly argument and just leads to sloppy work and lends itself as the
> "perfect excuse".
>
> I have 128 gig of ram on 2 of my machines so why should I suffer and
> have programs only use 8 because you don't? Its a silly argument and a
> bad way to go. Programs should be efficient, that doesn't mean minimal
> it just means efficient. 
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:25 AM, lists <bmarsh at bmarsh.com
> <mailto:bmarsh at bmarsh.com>> wrote:
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>     On 03/28/2014 08:16 PM, Steve Riley wrote:
>>     That's not really very much, when you consider that my PC has 8 GB RAM. Modern PCs are stuffed to the gills with RAM, why not take advantage of it?
>>
>>     We no longer live in the era when CPU cycles and memory bits were to be treated like diamonds. You paid for all that horsepower -- put it to use.
>
>     No, but having had problems with the complexity and overhead that
>     akonadi brings, I would rather do without it.   It does not play
>     nicely.
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