Yeah- I basically just use kde, and I know it takes a lot of resources.
I figure with an Athlon 1700+ XP T-bred B on an Abit KX7-333 DDR mobo, I
can afford a little kde eye-candy- and I like all the nice features. Never
have been a Gnome fan.
It's not that I'm that unhappy with linux performance, but on the rare ocassion I do boot into windows XP Pro, I do notice a real difference in
computer response, then I start thinking there must be something I can
do about it.
This is one of the biggest mis-interpetations about M$ (mis)Operating Systems.
What "looks" to be running faster is just a false impression. M$ pre-loads many of the libs, and the core of some programs at boot/login time. So when you double click on IE (for example), yes, it hits the screen much faster than Mozilla on Linux. But it's already half loaded. This is at the expense of the ram needed to run applications.
But then M$ works under the philosophy that Ram & disks are cheap. Just add more.
Linux works under a very different paradigm.
Sadly though, I have to totally agree with the lack of decent support for video cards. But lets face it. Linux doesn't have the wall full of games available at the local CompUSA. So there's nothing to force the developers to push on it.
Until that happens, it's only going to get worse. There's just no "commercial" push behind it.
Without that, developers will develop what they want to. Nothing more.
Ric
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