On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:10:14 -0500 Kristopher John Gamrat chaotickjg@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 13 February 2012 12:07:18 am /dev/ammo42 wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:06:59 -0800 (PST) Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:
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.
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)
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.