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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:26:45
Message-Id: 53D98D3B.7060200@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:54:07 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> The biggest thing for me, is just stuff I don't use or ever see me
5 >> needing. At one point, can't recall version, KDE4 was a bit of a memory
6 >> hog. It seems they have cleaned that up a lot since tho. Even on my
7 >> old rig which had 3GBs of ram and KDE3, it wasn't to bad on memory. CPU
8 >> wise tho, I'd hate to run KDE4 on my old rig. It is just to slow for
9 >> KDE4.
10 > I used to run KDE on a netbook with 2GB and it ran very well. True, LXDE
11 > was faster, but it did less. Not doing stuff faster isn't a benefit in my
12 > book.
13 >
14 >
15
16 That's why I use KDE still. There are things it does that I like plus
17 my new rig is fast enough and has plenty of ram. My old rig tho, not
18 KDE4. I don't think I would even try it. KDE4 is the reason I built
19 this new rig.
20
21 I do have Fluxbox installed tho. I have been known to use it a few
22 times too. It is so fast it is unreal.
23
24 Dale
25
26 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>