Ubuntu Unity Proves Very Slow To KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE

[thechef]

I switched to gnome after the release of KDE4.

Seeing that KDE4 now recovered and that the GNOME stack is no longer satisfying performance-wise, I'm happy to use this Desktop Environment again.

[Tiger_Coder]

Actually on my PC AMD IGP HD 4250 with Catalyst driver, KDE's both options gives almost same performance. Don't have unity to test although.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1207268-SU-KUBUNTUX640,1207268-SU-1207268SU29:a3VidW50dXg2NGxpZ2h0bWFyazI2anVseXJhZGVvbg,1204286-BY-KUBUNTUX660:a3VidW50dV94NjRfbGlnaHRtYXJrXzI4X2Fwcmls,1207263-SU-KUBUNTUX667:a3VidW50dXg2NGxpZ2h0bWFyazI2anVseWZnbHJ4X3dpdGhvdXRrd2lu&compare

[boast]

Actually on my PC AMD IGP HD 4250 with Catalyst driver, KDE's both options gives almost same performance. Don't have unity to test although.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...Rrd2lu&compare

Doesn't that, like Martin said on his blog, become more of a hardware limited issue than software with a 4250?

[pszilard]

yet another content-mill-style post

FFS, I'm so fed up with these misguiding "benchmarks". Michael, if you want to run a one man content-mill, would you mind doing it on Windows instead of Linux. Let's face it: the Linux community has so little performance benchmarking available that such articles which aim to "prove" things and end up being a pile of cow dung just do sooo much more bad than good.