I do not find KDE noticeably slower than Win98. Windows is optimized with icon caching and other goodies to speed up some desktop operations. Knoppix detects hardware on bootup and sets up the KDE desktop, after that is not active.
One thing that will be much slower is any animated application or game that uses OpenGL hardware rendering (DRI). This has to be carefully, explicitely enabled and your colleagues graphics card may not be supported. My ATI Rage 36 (mach64) requires a driver be compiled and I have not gotten it to actually work. So such games on my 575mhz (overclocked) PIII are inoperative. Such things do work in Windows. Another slower item is OpenOffice which is Java, loads slowly and works a bit more slowly than MS-Office but the price is certainly right. On Thursday 26 February 2004 18:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine > > and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can anyone suggest > why this is so anmd how to fix the problem? > > > Does he use KDE or Gnome? They need much more rescources than Windows > > 98. Suggest him to switch to some lightweight windowmanager like icewm > > or windowmaker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
