KDE is running extremely slow.

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From: Ravi <ravi@vip3r.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Sent: Sat Mar 15 22:35:20 EET 2003
Subject: Re: KDE is running extremely slow.

>> > I have an 800 MHZ PII with 384 megs of RAM. I'm new to this linux thing.

>> Are you running the X-Window System under Microsoft Windows?

>Yes, I'm running XFree86/Cygwin with KDE 2 on top of it.

Ok. You had me confused when you mentioned Linux. As you know XFree86 is not operation system dependent, and the XFree project is also much older (mid 1980's) than Linux. The X Window System is the de facto windowing standard for many other operating systems too than Linux - mainly variants of Unix.

As for KDE2 at the time of its release people were unhappy with its performance on Linux/Unix as well, and add to that the little overhead of running X on cygwin then the not-so-good performance is hardly any surprise. But "slow" is of course relative. If you find something else as big as KDE2 for cygwin X you could can run that and compare the performance to KDE2. 

One should keep in mind though that KDE2 for cygwin is not considered production quality by its authors - thus the not-so-smooth performance is understandable.