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[Luke -Jr]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Bradley Hook wrote:
> Luke -Jr wrote:
> >> I used to prefer fluxbox, because it really was (is) lighter and faster
> >> in practice, even with all of my apps loaded. KDE and GNOME both by
> >> default run a bunch of extra stuff that you "might" need, but you
> >> usually don't. Granted, it's trivial to turn these things off if you
> >> don't want them, but by default your system will run slow(er).
> >
> > s/"might"/probably/
>
> Yeah, sure, my wife will "probably" need Subversion modules or the Write
> Daemon, among other items loaded by default on a KDE install... just
> like she needed all those little system tray apps that loaded on her old
> Windows machine?

Nice try. The Subversion module isn't even *included* with a normal KDE 
install, you need the SDK for it. And the Write Daemon isn't hurting anyone. 
It should just swap out when not in use.

> I happily use KDE and GNOME, so I'm not complaining about either. But
> anyone who argues that a person running KWin (+ the rest of KDE) is
> going to have a lower resource usage than a person running Fluxbox (+
> all of their apps) is just plain nuts.

Have you tried it?