[clue-talk] Why X? [long, with provocative questions]

[Peter H.]

Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:
<snipped for your pleasure, by now we all know what was said>
>
> So, opinions, please (without flames, I hope). Why does X continue to be
> the only game in town? Has the community decided that it's really a
> pretty good system after all? Or is it just too much work to build
> something different? If so, weren't projects like GNOME, KDE, and ALSA
> too much work too?
>
>    [*] I mean that, of course, in the traditional sense: someone who
>        likes to play around with code, *not* a breaker-inner or
>        messer-upper of other people's systems.
>
>
> Curmudgeonly-ly yours,
> Matt Gushee
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Matt, I must also agree that X isn't the issue. Just for example, I am running 
a debian machine right now with brand new release software on a Toshiba Tecra 
w/150Mhz Cpu and my X is way faster than if i boot this machine into Me. I 
really think the problem lies in your choice of desktop. I'm running fluxbox 
on this machine with no noticeable slowdown whatsoever. 

My new AMD 3gig machine running SuSE 9.2 and KDE is actually slower at times 
than this laptop. KDE, especially bleeding edge KDE, can be very slow <at 
times>. For the most part though, I find it to be efficient enough for my 
taste in doing day to day tasks. //Peter
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