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.
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Originally posted by Tiger_Coder View PostActually 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
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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.
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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.
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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostActually, Xfce does that to - it has an option to display full screen overlay windows directly, just like KDE does. You can also turn the compositor off as Artemis3 suggested, but that is not the only option.
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Originally posted by Artemis3 View PostNo, the compositor is turned on by default in Xubuntu, which is why the benchmarks show lower FPS with XFCE than LXDE. Perhaps testing with both compositor on and off should clarify this. I rather use my desktop with the compositor off, the menu shadows and transparency of objects are not worth the tearing in videos and fewer FPS.
Originally posted by Rigaldo View PostIt's a bit different, I don't have XFCE in front of me right now to tell for sure, but in KDE you check a check-box once and you're done. In XFCE you'd have to go there every time you want to change it(or set a keyboard shortcut), but KDE does the switching on and off automatically(also it affects only the window I think, so if you have other screens where different apps are running they should be normal)(Also, from my understanding, KWin doesn't completely switch compositing off, only the effects for the fullscreen app, so it's kinda different).Last edited by Hamish Wilson; 08 September 2012, 08:32 PM.
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Originally posted by Artemis3 View PostDo the benchmarks with a window instead of fullscreen, and the truth will come out. I often play rpg games windowed, as the need to browse documentation online comes very often. Also, the time KDE takes to boot is absurd, even worse than gnome3, which in itself is quite unbearable.
And I disagree about gnome 3, KDE does take some time to load indeed, but gnome 3 loads very fast for me. Also, I don't think they affect anything before the display manager is started anyways(I count the time after the "flicker" that shows the DM/xorg starts ). And Gnome 3 isn't bad at all. I'd elaborate, but I'm afraid I might write pages ......
Originally posted by Artemis3 View PostIts the same with XFCE (a check box to turn on/off compositor). Only the gnome developers would think of the absurd...
It's a bit different, I don't have XFCE in front of me right now to tell for sure, but in KDE you check a check-box once and you're done. In XFCE you'd have to go there every time you want to change it(or set a keyboard shortcut), but KDE does the switching on and off automatically(also it affects only the window I think, so if you have other screens where different apps are running they should be normal)(Also, from my understanding, KWin doesn't completely switch compositing off, only the effects for the fullscreen app, so it's kinda different).
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Originally posted by mrugiero View PostUbuntu and Unity aren't the same thing.
I advise people to use the "Ubuntu MinimalCD" and choose the desktop they like. It is pretty much the same as Debian netinstall. (tip: Lubuntu is actually called LXDE Ubuntu desktop or such in the tasksel :P)
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