Breaking backwards compatiblity

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 05:22:07PM -0500, 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.
[...]

Good thing I didn't use them then. :-)

But if I was installing Linux on ancient hardware, I wouldn't even dream
of install KDE or GNOME. I mean, X11 itself is already a resource hog,
nevermind something built on top of it. I only installed X11 'cos I had
to use a GUI browser. (I would've stuck with Lynx if it had been able to
render tables the way elinks can today.)


T

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