Switching to Gnome from KDE

[Tommy Trussell]

On 10/12/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> My goal is to reduce the load on this machine, and with all the KDE
> libraries that Kate must load it is not quite viable.

You might try xfce (aka Xubuntu) as an alternate. My primary system is
a 1998 PowerBook G3 Series running at 266 Mhz, and I've been fine
running KDE and Gnome apps on it under xfce.

I doubt that it's the strain of the KDE and Gnome libraries that's the
problem -- I would suspect some particular application that's dragging
your system down. For example, the main reason I DON'T use Gnome on my
slowest machine is Nautilus is just too "heavy" -- it's constantly
doing stuff behind the scenes that I just don't need. In that one way,
KDE is lighter than Gnome, and xfce is much lighter than either.

But I'm not running something like F-Spot on it, either -- I'm
managing my graphics files more "manually" using carefully named
directories. So your requirements are obviously very different.

OH and I guess I should mention that I have a "posse" of cast-off
machines with just a few uses each... I have the 200Mhz Compaq that
has Apache and a big hard drive for web site testing and file backups,
and I have a 500 Mhz eMachines that runs my scanner and a print server
for handling paper documents. The PCs are running Dapper... and the
PowerBook is still running Breezy.

But of course I have the luxury of space (and electricity) to run more
than one machine... I'm sure someone else would find my daily habits
of running applications remotely (using ssh -X) to be confusing at
best.