[mdlug] Processors and Thugs

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Corral wrote:
> 2007-12-07, Monsieur Garry Stahl a ecrit:
>> I'm still cranking out on a 1.8 gig.
> 
> 1.8GHz? Luxury! My main PC is still a 1.2GHz Athlon that I've had for
> over 5 years. I keep trying to come up with reasons for why I should
> upgrade this box that works fine and does everything I need it to do.
> But I still can't really justify upgrading.
> 
>> Normal desktop work doesn't require huge amounts of horsepower.  It's
>> nice to have and I don't know anyone that would turn it down.
> 
> And Linux requires even less horsepower, if you avoid GNOME and KDE.
> My box running WindowMaker under Fedora 7 is snappier than more
> powerful machines I've used that ran Windows. A 3.0+GHz P4 would
> be more than good enough for any Linux desktop.

even on a 500 MHz processor, KDE performs well.
Login is a bit slow, but once it's loaded into memory,
it's OK.