20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
10:06 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 00:18 +0100, Malte Steiner wrote:
- formerly I gained some performance by switching to a
light
Windowmanager like Blackbox. Now I cant read any differences when I
measure the load with top, whether I use Gnome or Blackbox. Its a bit
strange in my opinion or did I miss a memo?
The Gnome developers finally started taking performance seriously a year
or two ago and they have done a great job. Also the realtime kernel
makes it much less likely that any display activity will perturb your
audio.
Unless you're stuck with a massively underpowered machine, use the WM
that has the features you want. They all perform OK these days.
Lee