Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: I had a windows 3 desktop with 4megs ram, netscape Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:00:23 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 45 Message-ID: <20170614200023.000b74a3@_> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ZTD62cW/Uw8bymX5ok+0NA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:60763 On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:29:10 -0700 (PDT) gavino himself wrote: > The experience surfing the web...or using xfe gui file manager on > freebsd 11 with icewm desktop... By "xfe," did you mean XFCE? (Yes ... ?) If you're not using XFCE but something else, then you might want to switch to XFCE. XFCE is a very fast desktop GUI. https://xfce.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce Eliminating GDM (Gnu GNOME Display Manager) as my display manager offered an immense speed up. This also eliminated various desktop glitches. I switched from GDM to LXDM. LXDM is the display manager for the LXDE desktop GUI. FYI, it wasn't designed to be paired with XFCE, but works well with it. So, you might consider using LXDE with LXDM since they're designed to go together. https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxdm/ http://lxde.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE Switching from Chrome to Mozilla Firefox improved my Internet browsing speed substantially. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Switching from VLC to SMPlayer improved video playback speed. They have Linux versions on the download page. You need to have MPlayer installed, but most Linux versions come with it pre-loaded. http://www.smplayer.info/ http://www.smplayer.info/en/downloads http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html Linux usually comes with many services/daemons enabled. This slows it down. Try turning off unneeded services, especially those which are a security risk since they open ports. Rod Pemberton -- The Paris Agreement is irrelevant. A carbon tax is futile. The only solution is technology. Please tell Elon Musk that he is not being a technology visionary.