"Let's be honest here: current versions of both GNOME and KDE are quite slower than XP UI.
It always felt a bit slower - what I and many others assumed to be caused by the X architeture or lack of hardware acceleration - but benchmarks seemed to differ. Anyway "Linux" UI performance has been on a downhill for years; enlightenment 0.16 with plenty of bells and whistles runs perfectly on a Pentium 100MHz, but current encarnations of GNOME and KDE run barely acceptably on a Duron 1.2GHz (with a geforce 6200 either with vesa, nv or nvidia drivers. Of course the onboard sis video isn't any better). Enlightenment and LXDE (and other ligthweight DEs) still runs pretty smooth; XFCE doesn't cut it since it switched to GTK2 :-/ It seems CPU-related, as a Core2 notebook with a crappy via onboard video runs snappy even with either openchrome or vesa driver." Maybe this could be an issue worth discussing here after all. :) The main reason Linux is becoming important for us is to target small companies where price matters a lot. This far I thought that Linux would be superior to XP possibly even with weaker machines. Now I feel I really need advice from those who can compare the two. :) It looks we can tell our clients which distro and GUI to use, but I need to make that decision first. I think it could be for the benifit of quite some of us to make a list of the worthy canditates (distro, GUI) with their advantages and disadvantages from the developers point of view (support and maintanace included. I'd welcome any personal opinion/experience. Regards, Leslie _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus