Re: [SLE] windows is faster, or, don't make miss ms windows

On Friday 08 November 2002 13.16, zentara wrote:

On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:03:29 -0200

Adagilson B B da Silva wrote:

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I have a K6-II 500 mhz, 256MB RAM, HD 40GB. It works fine with Win ME and even with Win XP (the two other OS I have installed in my computer) and they run fast as it could be, saved the limits of this kind of configuration. But with linux everything seems slow. Why? a.

Probably because you are using a bloated desktop manager like kde or gnome. You will see a great improvement is responsiveness if you switch to fvwm2 or something like blackbox.

I can recommend Xfce. It works brilliantly on low end hardware, and you still get some nice newbie-friendly features