Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:07 -0600, Stevens wrote:
> I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 
> system and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. 
> What a desktop enhancement!
> 
> Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the 
> computer because of the extra overhead that it requires and because I 
> personally do not need or want many of the bells and whistles that are 
> provided. So, to summarize, it is really nice eye candy but it made my 
> system slow down because I don't have gobs of memory.
> 
> Fred
> 

Depends on the machine - my Nvidia with AIGLX is as usable as without
Beryl (with the exception of window resizing, for some weird reason very
slow).
BUT, my Dell Intel laptop is a no-go for working - but still fine for
showing-off.




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