Do you notice speed differences in Desktop Environments?

[Cyraxzz]

I know that this is hardware centered, but since there are no other laptop sub-forums i have to post it here.

[23meg]

I do notice; I think on most configurations it should be impossible not to. XFCE is the fastest of this bunch without doubt.

[byen]

I agree with 23meg, of the three, XFCE is the fastest ...but I cannot really say which of the remaining two is faster. I have a decent configuration (P4 1.8 , 768mb ram) and both Gnome and KDE do pretty well on my setup. It would be interesting to see how Gnome and Kde compare.. I am not really sure how big the speed difference is.
But again..for speed..I vote XFCE.

[nealklomp]

yeah, there is no two ways about it, Xfce is much faster than Gnome or KDE.

[ahmatti]

XFCE is the fastest for sure I also like the desktop most functional for productive working with data analysis and latex and stuff.

[Lord Illidan]

I doubt that GNOME or KDE can beat XFCE, especially on Zenwalk, for example...On Ubuntu XFCE has been slowed down a bit.

[aysiu]

I know that this is hardware centered, but since there are no other laptop sub-forums i have to post it here.

Since this thread is more of a discussion/opinion thread than a support one, I've moved it to the Cafe.

[ComplexNumber]

on less powerful hardware, speedwise, it tends to be xfce > gnome > kde.
on more powerful hardware, speedwise, it tends to be xfce > gnome = kde.

[hoagie]

I can't really say beacuse i haven't tried them all. Gnome runs pretty fast on my computer. (P4@ 3.0Ghz, 1.25 Gb ram).

[karellen]

I didn't find xfce being faster than gnome, but I'm probably subjective here. gnome seems snappier than kde on my machine....so here am I, a big fan of gnome (but not just because of it's responsiveness ; )