<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Donald Steven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t6sn7gt@aim.com" target="_blank">t6sn7gt@aim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As desktops become more demanding on resources, I'm wondering if the<br>
choice of GNOME 3, MATE, or KDE 4 has an impact on audio performance.<br>
This is something to consider as F17 is released. Should I instal itl,<br>
or stay with, say, GNOME 2 on F13?<br></blockquote><div><br>At first I really disliked Gnome 3. After using it with a tablet PC and then getting used to it I made a complete 180 and now find it very nice for general PC work. While trying to get some lower-end laptops to use a rt-kernel under F16 to use for a DAW and looking for something a little less resource heavy while complaining about Gnome 3 someone(Malte Steiner) suggested I use Fluxbox. It took a bit to get the hang of configuring it, but it runs faster then LXDE and is more configurable. I used to use LXDE to get a little more out of my DAW even under Gnome 2, but Fluxbox beats it hands down. It doesn't run right out of the box, so there is a learning curve on setting it up. It was well worth my time to do so though. I switch between Gnome 3 and Fluxbox as I did with LXDE when I want to do audio work. Turning off all unnecessary services will help you too, like iptables, sendmail and such. You should be behind a firewall, so you shouldn't have to have it on. Putting Sellinux into promiscuous mode will help also. Fluxbox really did make all the difference. <br>
<br>--Sean <br></div></div>