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heljy:
Hi all!! I just upgraded to mandrake 9.0 and I must say i am impressed, its really easy to use  

Anyway, I am using the gnome wm, gnome2 if I am correct, and the system seems sluggish...at least compared to when I was using Mandrake 8.0

P3 600
256MB Ram
Intel 810 integrated video card

Is that normal? Or is Gnome2 is very graphic intensive?

rtgwbmsr:
Gnome2 is definately more graphics intensive. A slowdown is expected (KDE 3 didn't slow down much though, except for the "K" menu)

BTW: Mandrake has historically been slower than most other Linuxes.

Drake 9 is cool...enjoy!

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

slave:
Dunno, I installed RH 8 (i know, not mandrake, but it has GNOME 2) on a 700 mhz athlon w/ 256 MB ram and it seemed faster in most respects than GNOME 1.4.  Just my experience.  Certainly faster on that computer than any version of KDE past 1.x.

voidmain:
I would agree with XP User. Gnome2 seems much faster (and more stable) than previous versions of Gnome. And KDE 3.0 seems much faster than previous versions of KDE. To me they seem about the same for speed. But then I have an Athlon 1600 and RedHat 8 so it may not be noticable on my machine.

rtgwbmsr:
It seemed faster on my Athlon 1700+ (1.46 GHz)

I noticed the slowdown on my K6-2 350 MHz and my 500 MHz PIII, both with old, cheap video cards. Might that have something to do with it in a Quartz-extremish way?

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