since i got a new laptop, samsung r70 - my old amilo is dying and was shity anyways - im back on windows.
why? easy, atm (open)solaris does not support stepping for multicore cpus - on a laptop, this kills.
another thing, X sucks big time and even more the window systems on top - gtk based system are the worst for my memory, gnome eats about ~250mb out of the box alone, xfce ~150mb. but the worst is the leaking, dunno if this is a solaris "special", but realy atm, i dont care, i dont have the time for such things.
the worst on gtk is firefox. on *nix firefox is gtk based, with X(org) this leaks like hell, ~200mb firefox memory (yeah i got a couple of tabs open…) this gives me a ~500mb Xorg after some time (memory is here the limit). i have to look out for it, cause otherwise my system goes into a swap-lock. (i dont have this problems in windows, there firefox uses windows native stuff)
what could i do? - use kde. i allways liked qt based stuff better from the "feel". opera is an option and i will try to migrate on opera 9.5 (not the first time). i could use kde from blastwave, but no, aint no blastwave for me - if im doing it, im doing it right.
also i would prefer to wait until kde 4.x is out, going by 3.5.x and then finding out the newer versions suck - nah.
so i will wait, and maybe, if i like it, port kde 4 to solaris. i think its crucial that sun picks up kde and integrates it. i always here "there is blastwave kde" or "why not port it by your self?" - but that stinks, i can ask back, "why does sun maintain there own gnome version then?" its more work then simply port it on a desktop.
well so im on my vista now and i wonder why all the people flame on it that much, yeah its huge and so on but it isnt that bad…
i will cross-check performance with a windows xp install soon.
ps: for your windows terminal (putty) needs: a good font! (standard sucks on white background)
