On Saturday, August 27, 2011 01:29 George OLson wrote:
Ok, next problem. I have an older pc for my kids that was running windows xp on it. It is an old Dell desktop with a dual core (I think) Intel Pentium 4 processor and 256MB of RAM.
I completely removed XP and installed 32bit OS 11.4 and it is now up and running. However, it runs really, really slow. Basically it is unusable. I kind of expected that, but I wanted to try it out anyway. I assume the problem is not enough memory, right?
So what is the best course of action to get it usable for my kids? Is the problem with KDE? Does KDE take up too much RAM to run in the new 4.6? Should I try and downgrade to an earlier version of KDE? If so, how do I get the older KDE packages and install them?
Or is the problem with the whole distribution? I have disks for OS 11.1 and OS 9.3. Should I install one of those instead of 11.4?
IMO, 7.3 and 9.3 were the best versions SuSE has ever put out. KDE screwed up going to KDE4 and all the moronic eye candy garbage and not-intuitive-anymore ways of getting to anything done and taking a *LOT* of control away from the user - it's not much different in look and feel from M$ anymore. Unfortunately it seems Linux in general is going the way of M$, when you come to linux forums or mailing lists and you hear the excuses M$ users used 10 years ago for it not running well on their systems - ie: not enough RAM, reboot to fix it, the 'oh you need the sooper-dooper-most-up-to-date-version of that to work' excuse, ad nausea. So, try the 9.3, though the problem with that may be that you'll play hell finding updated apps *IF* they're necessary for whatever odd reason. As I said, things seemed to just work, so hopefully you'll not need to worry about updating anything. Me, I'm also going to put 9.3 back on another partition and prove once-and-for-all that I should have stayed with it, or not. Best of luck, John -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE: 3.5.10 "release 41" 07:36am up 2 days 8:33, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org