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Comparing the Performance of KDE and Gnome

pinderkent.blogsavy.com — "I have found that KDE feels more responsive than GNOME, when used on the same system. KDE applications like the Konqueror web browser, the KMail mail client, and the Kate text editor feel snappy. On the other hand, GNOME applications like the Epiphany web browser, Balsa email client, and gedit text editor do not feel as quick ..."

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  • cloakeddagger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4another irony is that as QT is GPL while GTK is LGPL... making KDE/QT actually a free-er (sic) alternative....
  • atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here you go: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html
  • jrepin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But you must not forget that kdelibs are also LGPL. If I'm not mistaken it's a rule that they have to be. For non-kdelibs things it is the choice of the application developer which freedom license to select.
  • sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You have got to be kidding me. This comparison is based on "feels like" and "it seems"!

    Get me some charts and numbers!
  • jenkins86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1atdigg: the article actually mentions that site. sishgupta probably didn't actually read it.
  • LadyBeGood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I hate KDE and Gnome. Bloatware.

    All hail the command line!

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