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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Bobby on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @15:27

It will beat Vista because Vista will be the same in the next 4 - 5 years but this is just the beginning of KDE4. Already KDE 4.0 has quite a few features that Vista can only dream of not to mention it's speed and the small amount of resources that it needs when compared to Vista.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Terracotta on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @16:02

Not that I don't love KDE as much as the next guy, but from my experience KDE 4 is way slower than Vista, last time I checked was KDE 4.0 RC2, perhaps things changed. But you are right, this is just the beginning, most of the good stuff is yet to come.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Anon on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @16:11

What have you been smoking? I'd really like some of that stuff.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by anon on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:21

Not exactly a civil answer (im not the one you were answering BTW).

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Pascal on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @19:05

I can confirm this. I'm on a Intel Core Duo 2.0 Ghz, 3 Gb RAM and 512MB Nvidia graphics card and the graphics are lacking.
I'm hoping this is a specific problem with my hardware, because otherwise a lot of people will be suprised. It may also be the kubuntu packages that have problems.
I tried this with post-RC2 packages.

However, I'm sure this issue will be fixed quickly or may allready have been fixed

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Allan on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:22

I don't see that. I got a completely new high-end laptop last week shipped with Vista. Vista is pretty slow, but at least it realised that itself and auto decreased eye-candy. KDE 4 on other hand is completely smooth.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Dirk on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:48

Perhaps there's something wrong with your setup or the machine is crippled by the shitware bundled by the vendor. My laptop is one year old and Vista runs on it like a dream. Granted, it has 2GB of RAM.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by mschnide on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @09:58

Like on my laptop.

But KDE4 in a chroot environement is much faster than Vista.

It's great, has some bugs, but it is not yet released (in 2 days ;-)

Great work !!!

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by sebas on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @04:00

KWin is snappier and smoother on my ATi AIGLX than on my nvidia system -- So I suspect driver issues with nvidia.ko. Once KDE 4.0 is out and becomes more 'mainstream', I hope NVidia will sort those issues out. They have been responive in the past fo far ...

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Michael Thaler on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @00:08

If you have an NVidia graphics card, try adding "export KWIN_NVIDIA_HACK=1" to your .bash_profile and .bashrc. This should make compositing smoother and faster. Without that KWin with composting enabled felt quite slow on my system (not moving windows, but switching from one window to another or from one tab to another). With this, switching windows or tabs became much quicker.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Robert Knight on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:54

> I'm hoping this is a specific problem with my hardware

I have seen at least a couple of bug reports about poor performance on NVidia hardware. Apparently the very latest NVidia drivers remedy the problems somewhat. If you haven't already got them, please try them and see if there is any change.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Jesus R. Acosta on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:35

perhaps debug compile mode ...

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Max on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @15:15

Hope not.. Vista is sloooow....
Even on faster systems...

Hopefully it'll add more color by the final release... KDE 4.0 feels a bit too black and white so far. Guess that's the style these days.. Thanks Apple!

At least it's cutting edge. :D

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Bobby on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @04:06

Funny enough I didn't like black or dark themes before but KDE4 does it in a way that it really looks very attractive and it's easy on the eyes.

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