[TAG] please share your experience

[J.Bakshi]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:35:40 +0100 (BST)
Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- "J.Bakshi" <hizibizi at spymac.com> wrote:
> > don't go for a H/W up-gradation frequently. I used my first
> > self-assembled PC for roughly 10 years. KDE  becomes gradually more
> > hungry as a result fatty too -:) . so it may happen that KDE makes
> > your 2/3 years old H/W ( cpu, RAM) obsolete . and then you may fell
> > switching over to other small and fast WM to continue with your
> > existing H/W. only KDE themselves allow you to continue with KDE by
> 
> Well, yes.  My own opinion is that you shouldn't have to upgrade your
> PC from a few years ago, to satisfy the working of KDE (or some other
> application.)  If it is programmed well, then it ought to handle
> lower-end system just fine.  I suspect it's a trade-off though between
> users wanting more features, and the fact that the developers of KDE
> themselves have a lot of new shiny hardware, such that they're not
> aware of the slowness issues on older hardware.

definitely they have latest H/W , so they don't bother about the older -:(. but the term *latest* depends on time factor. those who have *latest* H/W have no problem to run KDE. and soon their H/W become older with respect of KDE . so if KDE doesn't control its intention to become more hungry and fatty , it gets new users who own *latest* H/W at the same time loose its users who had *latest* H/W once with respect to KDE and are not able to do frequent up-gradation for KDE.

Joydeep