LXDE and Enlightenment?
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| Author | Content |
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| Jeff91 Jan 25, 2011 9:56 AM EDT |
I've found both LXDE and Enlightenment are faster than XFCE... Anyone else? ~Jeff |
| dinotrac Jan 25, 2011 10:52 AM EDT |
Enlightenment? Really? That surprises me given that e is really pretty darned snazzy. |
| Bob_Robertson Jan 25, 2011 11:24 AM EDT |
Lxde didn't thrill me, and the only experience I've had with E is with the E-Live CD, so seriously I couldn't say. I don't have my single-core system any more to try them out for speed. Everything works pretty well for me speed wise, it's feature bloat and "look and feel" that make/break. Lastly, in terms of "speed", isn't it really speed for what you use it for? Even KDE4, with all the bells and whistles turned off that can be turned off, is fast enough. |
| Jeff91 Jan 25, 2011 8:20 PM EDT |
Enlightenment can boot to around 60megs of RAM if you strip things down. Around 100megs on a typical config ~Jeff |
| Ridcully Jan 26, 2011 2:14 AM EDT |
I'd like to support Bob_Robertson's last comment about "speed". I was around at a Linux friend's place yesterday where both of us had a bit of "show and tell" fun about our latest DE's. He showed off Xfce and what it can do, and I showed him KDE4.4 running in the "all bells and whistles, KDE3.5 approx. mode". I could see very little difference in speeds between the two in practical terms, and my friend (who really does love tinkering for speed) quietly commented that KDE4 under my settings was quite satisfactory as regards speed. Xfce is undoubtedly faster, but to me at least, the difference isn't significant in terms of what I can do at the desktop. |
| ComputerBob Jan 26, 2011 10:05 AM EDT |
Ridcully,
While I see what you're saying, I can't help but conclude that your "show and tell" was not a fair comparison that would be helpful for anyone except you and your friend. After all, you were using your own heavily modified, "chopped" KDE4, and your friend was using his own tweaked Xfce. Plus, you didn't mention how your friend's and your hardware compared, or whether either of you were running on older hardware. So, while I greatly admire your skill and patience in being able to modify KDE4 to make it more like KDE3.5 -- as well as your skill in describing that entire process in articles (3 of them, so far) here at LXer -- your "show and tell" doesn't provide much helpful information to typical KDE4 users who wouldn't have your knowledge, skills or patience, and would therefore normally not do all of the tweaking that you did. In other words -- and to use a bad analogy -- even a fully loaded garbage truck can beat a Maserati on a 1/4-mile track -- if you strap enough jet engines onto it. But that wouldn't really provide a fair comparison of the speed of a Maserati and the speed of a fully loaded garbage truck. And no, I'm not saying that the stock KDE4 is like a fully loaded garbage truck -- I wouldn't want to be accused of plagiarism. ;) |
| Steven_Rosenber Jan 26, 2011 4:24 PM EDT |
Jeff has more than a little skin in the game, as it were, as the lead developer of an Enlightenment-running distro: http://www.bodhilinux.com/index.html Not that there's anything wrong with that ... I've tried Bodhi, and I think it's very good. |
| jdixon Jan 26, 2011 5:41 PM EDT |
> ...quietly commented that KDE4 under my settings was quite satisfactory as regards speed. So, your KDE 4, which you spent weeks configuring to your satisfaction, is almost as fast as his "out of the box" XFCE. In investing circles, we'd call that a poor return on investment. :) |
| Jeff91 Jan 26, 2011 8:23 PM EDT |
Run KDE 4.x and then LXDE/Enlightenment on a netbook or some other low end system. You will see a huge difference. ~Jeff |
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