Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Sean Cavanaugh]

On 3/10/2012 4:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh"<hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.437.1331414346.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>
>> True. But I found Linux far more superior in terms of being usable on
>> very old hardware.
>
> There have been exceptions to that: About 10-12 years ago, GNOME (or at
> least Nautlus) and KDE were *insanely* bloated to the pount of making
> Win2k/XP seem ultra-lean.
>
>

Both KDE and Gnome UIs and apps using these Uis still feel very sluggish 
to me on a modern machine.  I don't get this feeling at all on Win7, 
even on a much slower machine (my laptop for instance).