Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 19:17 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> I still remember <creak crack back breaking> when my Mac had its
> entire GUI operating system packed onto a tiny fraction for a 400 KB
> floppy with enough room left over for one or two apps and the computer
> had a stunning 128 KB of RAM!!! (and, for all practical purposes it
> provided as much utility as a modern 3+ GHz machine that's used for
> everyday work tasks (sans internet)).


Indeed...
That's why I can't resort to accepting the sluggishness of Gnome and all
(most) of its apps.
>From a user point of view, it doesn't provide much more, for simple day
to day work, than much older systems. Yet it's a lot slower despite
running on machines 10 times as fast.
So as much as I love my Gnome, the situation can't possibly be
justified...
But I gather they have started work on it for 2.14, and will continue
identifying and fixing bottlenecks in future releases, so thanks guys,
and good luck.

--
Vince