On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:56:36 +0000 Luke-Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 06:25, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I am looking for something that would run KDE / GNOME well enough that I don't misinterpret its performance as a bug. I suspect video card + 900 MHz machine would do the job. Although, beggers are not choosers.
- a crapload of RAM
Unless you use only very few applications at a time, even 1 GB won't be enough. I generally sit around 3 GB RAM usage-- mostly swapped, which kills performance.
Or you could just use less applications at once. I run Gnome all day on a laptop with only 384 MBs of RAM. It's my primary work station and I never run into serious performance problems.
I typically have the following running constantly:
*) Several ( 5 or more ) terminals *) Sylpheed *) Firefox with several tabs *) X-Chat *) Gaim *) Lifrea
And I use OpenOffice randomly during the day... so basically don't get the idea that you have to have over 1 GB of ram to run a modern Linux desktop, as I hardly ever end up swapping.
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