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[Bradley Hook]

Luke -Jr wrote:
> 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.

My "normal" KDE install involves sticking in a Slackware 12 disk and 
using "recommended" options. I never said the write daemon was hurting 
anyone, just that there was really very little reason to be loading it 
at startup. And hell, my systems have enough RAM that they simply don't 
swap at all.

>> 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?

I used Fluxbox as my primary wm for well over a year, quite happily. It 
was noticeably faster and used less memory than my current KDE install. 
The main reason I switched off Fluxbox is because, like I've already 
said, it's hard to sell the "transitional" users on something as slim as 
Fluxbox. Since I'm trying to "sell" Linux to these transitional users, 
it's easier for me to stay familiar with the environments like KDE and 
GNOME if I'm using them myself.

~Bradley