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I'm curious, I believe that one of the ways that OSX make the GUI experience of *nix more 'snappy' was to ditch X and run the window manager more directly on the hardware.
If I'm looking to run Linux on a desktop, and have no interest in sending Windows to other machines on the network, can I run KDE or Gnome with no 'X' to eliminate that ever-so-slight lag with the window manager experience.
I guess basically what I'm asking is is there an equivalent of quartz for Linux?
It's not just that alternatives to X are likely to be slower than X (because fewer people work on optimizing their drivers). Gnome, kde, and any other windowed program requires a windowing environment, and X is the windowing environment. X itself is the Linux equivalent of Quartz. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-10-14T23:06:25.550
The note about local X speed not depending on the network system is important, but it is also implementation dependent. It's just true for all the current systems with any market share. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten – 2010-10-14T23:28:34.710
And what about the lack of vertical synchronization (see here)? I'm still finding a way to overcome it...
– cYrus – 2011-05-30T17:18:24.983