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Idea #2459: Improve performance and memory usage in Gnome enviroment

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #42: Speed Up Ubuntu-Gnome boot time.
Written by kleytonn the 2 Mar 08 at 12:40. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Currently GNOME is very slow and uses a lot of CPU and memory.

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Solution #1: Speed up GDM
Written by kleytonn the 2 Mar 08 at 12:40.
Turn fast and light the Gnome enviroment with a fast boot. Today, a login in GDM cost 10 or 20 seconds to load a user desktop in one fast computer.
KDE 4.0.1 is new but is visible more light than Gnome.


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LostOverThere wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 07:24
Agreed, its extremely sluggish at the moment.

droetker wrote on the 2 Apr 08 at 13:59
or switch to KDE4 when its stable ;-)

ebrahim wrote on the 12 Apr 08 at 21:17
I would recommend moving to KDE4 as the default DE.

linuxguy6 (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 23 Mar 09 at 21:04
I split the idea into a valid Rationale-Solution format.


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