Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 00:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That was true in the days of Win98 and RH running with fvwm95. It 
> hasn't been true for a long time now.
> 
> The desktop is all about bling, and it consumes an awful lot of cpu 
> power, regardless of OS and platform. What I find happens in practice 
> though is that Linux seems to do memory management better than 
> Windows, so I tend to load up a bazillion apps and think nothing of 
> it. This machine is a 2600 AMD Barton with 1GB RAM, 2G swap and I 
> have running:
> 

By underpowered I mean 1Ghz or less