On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:10:08PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Damn, and I run about 60 applications simultaneously and never lose > overview with fluxbox or ion. I must be doing something wrong.
This seems to me to be a sloppy way to work. If all these apps are doing significant amounts of work, each one is going to run very slowly. More than a few simultaneous compiles and you're just thrashing. I have a fast computer and have selected apps that start quickly. I find it neater and cleaner to open and close the handful of things I'm working on, and instead run hundreds of tasks serially rather than in parallel. I think this is just sloppiness.