On Mon, January 14, 2008 21:50, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
All reports are that KDE4 is lighter than KDE3. I wouldn't consider KDE bloatware myself, but I guess that is subjective.
It would be hard to compare them at this point, since 4 is so unfinished, but KDE has been working very hard to make it's code more efficient, so they may well come out as the lightest of the vista/leopard/kde4 group.
3.5.7/8 are pretty nice, efficient working environments. They're not xfce minimalists by any means, but they're not Gnome either.