Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Completely new to =?UTF-8?B?TGludXjigJRaZXJv?= coding knowledge. Where do I start? Date: 31 Mar 2026 04:55:32 GMT Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <10q2v8v$2neq7$1@dont-email.me> <10q30ss$2nl5u$3@dont-email.me> <10q5nbq$3kugt$8@dont-email.me> <20260330081324.000014e0@gmail.com> <10qf2mi$2t7j7$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qiyCFHze5h7hiG1+8/LYBgWQKhOyNiY8scWMDtWRLsgf5PwKd8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LNCzf6IEMVvDvNkNbR8c0UpdyNQ= sha256:HGBxi2YAZPnfsEPDVXTmBAoHSH05Z3VJIg/gzdrDtxY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84803 On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:58:10 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > They killed it because it was embarrassing that Windows needed so much > in the way of hardware resources to produce that eye candy, when a Linux > system running KDE Plasma could manage all of that, and more, on > something as low-powered as a single-core 900MHz Celeron (which was what > you had on an Asus Eee 701 netbook). We would have clients complaining about ghosting, the mouse leaving tracks, and other strange effects. "Are you running Aero? Turn it off."