Replacing windows XP at home.

[RW]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 18:34, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:15:48PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > KDE is mostly application modules, which you don't need to install if you
> > dont want them. These days, though, the avoidance of bloat is mostly just
> > a fetish.  I've not noticed any speed difference between KDE and the
> > lighter window managers for years. And as far as disk space is concerned
> > we are talking about pennies. I've tried fluxbox and the like off-and-on,
> > but I always miss some KDE feature within minutes.
>
> I disagree. Bloat is bloat. I'm using ion3 on my laptop and it's
> blazingly fast. I installed KDE on my wife's computer and while it's not
> a dog it is NOT blazingly fast.

All I can say is I don't see a difference between KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox and TWM 
on the same machine.