Re: Re: Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice..

I guess it is due to X being old, bloated and going via TCP/IP even locally or what it was...

I had dinner once with Jim Gettys, who pointed out that they developed X11 for machines with a handful of megahertz and two megabytes of RAM. He had it running on his iPaq. I've personally had more trouble with (what appears to be) one application holding the single GDI lock on Windows 2000 while waiting for network data than I have with X applications. I also miss virtual workspaces on Windows, though I have found a decent free pager with edge flipping.

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Re(3): Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Jun 04, 2002 at 20:57 UTC
Ok, scratch bloated then. :) Actually, I do not have any facts backing me up on that one either, just a very unqualified guess. The fact I do have, and withstand, is that the x based window managers, for whatever reason, seems (which is what counts to the user) much slower and worse than MS windows (this case being w2k) at doing the approximate tasks, both simple moving around windows/redrawing and the apps themselves. I'd hate to break that into a contest though, because I do not want to scare anyone off from using linux, which has a lot of other advantages, and is steadily becoming better (faster computers also helps, just as it does for windows). I tried running a linux-only environment for a month or so, but I pretty soon reverted back to a mixed set. Best of both worlds... :) I haven't had the same problem (that I am aware of) that you mention, but I suppose it might depend on what you work with, etc. And virtual workspaces++ every day of the week - I don't really use them enough to be really effective, but that is one of the better things since sliced bread. And I do try. :) You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply]

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by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Jun 04, 2002 at 20:57 UTC

Actually, I do not have any facts backing me up on that one either, just a very unqualified guess. The fact I do have, and withstand, is that the x based window managers, for whatever reason, seems (which is what counts to the user) much slower and worse than MS windows (this case being w2k) at doing the approximate tasks, both simple moving around windows/redrawing and the apps themselves. I'd hate to break that into a contest though, because I do not want to scare anyone off from using linux, which has a lot of other advantages, and is steadily becoming better (faster computers also helps, just as it does for windows). I tried running a linux-only environment for a month or so, but I pretty soon reverted back to a mixed set. Best of both worlds... :)

I haven't had the same problem (that I am aware of) that you mention, but I suppose it might depend on what you work with, etc.

And virtual workspaces++ every day of the week - I don't really use them enough to be really effective, but that is one of the better things since sliced bread. And I do try. :)

You have moved into a dark place.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

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