On 2017-04-19 22:24, Daniele wrote:
Il 19/04/2017 22:01, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2017-04-19 21:12, Daniele wrote:
Il 19/04/2017 12:32, Vojtěch Zeisek ha scritto: ..
I liked very much the idea that installer should somehow "check" the hardware and if it is too weak to run KDE/GNOME, the installer should as default promote e.g. XFCE and/or notify user KDE/GNOME would require more CPU, memory, whatever. I have no idea how difficult would it be. I think everyone can imagine frustration from running terribly slooooooow system. Especially when some more lightweight DE would run fast on very same HW.
Please, define too weak. Modern browser are more resource hog then Plasma/Gnome.
Not on the video hardware.
All the rest ;) Not enough ?
Both KDE and Gnome seem to demand a lot from the video card to display, so that sometimes it simply works slowly. It is also possible that the CPU has to do the work of the GPU simply because the driver is not capable; the CPU is overloaded and the result is slow for the entire system. Other times it is the CPU load that is too much, while the machine has capable video hardware with proprietary driver and all. Or has little memory. On all those cases, telling the user to try a desktop such as XFCE solves the issue and the user says the machine behaves briskly again. I doubt there is a way to list the machine specs and know beforehand if the machine is capable or not. I think that you need to run some benchmarks to know. I think Windows does that precisely and displays a score for the current machine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)