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tom wrote: > Neil Winchurst wrote: >> Dan Dart wrote: >> >>> A KDE user might like LXDE better, so maybe try that too. >>> >>> >> Don't know that one, will have a google. Mint version Gloria has three >> choices of desktop system, Ubuntu, Kubuntu or XFCE. The last was the >> smallest so I am trying that and learning something new as well. >> >> So far I quite like XFCE. >> >> Thanks >> >> Neil >> >> > I'm running XFCE on my viglen (500Mhz geode/256Meg ram) and its proving > a bit slow - its taken me nearly an hour just to tell it to do the > updates and install LXDE which I'm going to try next! > I must confess that I'm amazed how slow things have got - its > considerably slower that when I first ran xfce on a 386 with 16Meg of > ram (suse 5.1 ~1997?) > Tom te tom te tom > > Well, it is quite slow, but I assumed that was due to using a laptop instead of a desktop computer. I will definitely look at LXDE. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html