3 ways to turbocharge your Linux desktop
Power up with Fluxbox, Enlightenment and Ratpoison
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Manufacturers and PC vendors would have you believe that there's only one way to speed up your machine: buy new kit.
And then, in 18 months, buy new kit again. However, it's usually our software that's the real bottleneck.
If you've been using Linux for a while, you'll already have discovered lighter alternatives to some of the platform's bloatfests – for example, using AbiWord and Gnumeric in the place of OpenOffice.org.
But what about the desktop itself? To start with, let's look at how the layers of the Linux GUI fit together.
That's the setup when you're running one of the big three desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce). However, if you choose a standalone window manager (WM), you can cut out the first and third layers in this stack. A window manager tends to incorporate all desktop functionality into a single executable that doesn't have additional programs such as file managers.
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