On Wednesday 09 April 2025 15:50:03 Andrew Randrianasulu via tde-users wrote:
I was thinking this morning that as fast as TDE seems compared to other DEs, that the fastest system I have seen is Windows for Workgroups (WFWG) 3.11 on my 450 MHz K6-III+ CPU with 256 MB of RAM. WFWG is 16-bit and designed for 486 CPUs with 16 MB of RAM or less. I well remember the first time I migrated WFWG from my 486 to my 586. I was dumbfounded by the huge increase in speed. I never have seen anything as fast since although TDE comes close.
If memory serves, we had a much earlier thread about TDE's speed, and somebody posted links about comparisons among various DEs. TDE was the fastest among the more "robust" desktops
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Perhaps somebody else here remembers that thread, or can help us by finding some such link with comparisons of various DEs?
may be links in this thread?
https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt op.org/thread/T4AFXJK2JWKYCQLYGCE2JACQVA3GH6N6/
Yes, thank you. That wasn't quite a direct hit, but near enough that it led me to something useful.
The heading of the thread, for anybody searching Kmail to find it: TDE vs LXDE, LXQT and XFCE
And that led to this reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/kb0cp6/i_compared_the_ram_... https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/kb0cp6/i_compared_the_ram_...
There you can see how Trinity compares favorably to the very light desktops.
Bill