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NW wrote:
I cant be sure but I get the impression everything is a bit OTT. My viglen/LXFE machine seems a lot lot slower that my old 50Mhz 486/XFCE despite having a cpu that should be at least 15 times the power and running a lot less. It could be an illusion but I dont think so...Roland Tarver wrote:On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Rhia Knowles <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Recent mint CDs come with compiz enabled on compatible hardware as default. So boot up eg mint 7, and spin that cube!Hmmm - ok - It did not seem to do that when I booted mint 8.1 on my year old laptop, however, I will investigate. Thank you Rhia. Even though I asked the original question (for my friends benefit), personally I don't like "lights and clockwork" - I like simplicity and speed, ideally the command line - ok, ok, perhaps with a web browser thrown into the party. haha! But I do love the fact that linux users have the freedom to choose exactly what they want and how they want it :-) Best wishes rolyI too feel that KDE has gone rather OTT. Which is the reason that, on my laptop, I have installed Mint 7 Xfce. And it works very well for me. Neil
Anyone know of a curses X window manager? Tom te tom te tom -- 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