13 Feb
2012
13 Feb
'12
4:53 p.m.
On Monday 13 February 2012 07:23:37 am /dev/ammo42 wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:10:14 -0500
Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mine didn't have the KWin effects on either, I don't care much for any
eye-candyish stuff.
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Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
On Monday 13 February 2012 12:07:18 am
/dev/ammo42 wrote:
My €250 box didn't
run KWin effects (you can disable them instantly
with Alt-Shift-F12, or go in the System Settings to disable them
permanently), anyway it couldn't given the old "Graphics My A**" it has.
The KWin performance improvements on 4.7/4.8 are real, at least on my
all-AMD laptop with FOSS drivers. On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:06:59 -0800 (PST)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
If the window manager overloads a 2.4ghz dual core CPU with 4GB RAM,
I'd say one needs "bleeding edge" to run it ;-) (I can't say anything
about post-4.6 releases of KDE, but even with just the panel and two
Konqueror windows open, KWin from 4.6 would overload my CPU when I
would push Alt+Tab, and it would take several minutes to actually
switch the windows; of course, I don't know how well it would perform
now on 4.7 or 4.8, I keep hearing it's been improving) Of course, geeks and trolls believe that
everybody should buy
bleeding edge hardware with gobs of RAM and CPU cycles to waste
and just STFU.
One not really needs to have a "bleeding edge hardware"
to run KDE4.
Unless you consider an €250 (without taxes) ultra-low-end box from
2004 being bleeding edge.