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On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. |
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> Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to |
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> worry about them at all? Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not |
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> understand why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. |
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Don't even bother trying KDE4 if you have a recent nVidia card. Performance is |
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atrocious as KDE4 uses acceleration effects in plasma etc that nVidia didn't |
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account for in their driver, with the results that significant amounts of |
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rendering are done using a software path (i.e. not in hardware), which is very |
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slow. |
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There also doesn't appear to be any quick fix coming anytime soon. |
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