does running a lightweight DE use less CPU?

[Village Idiot]

i suppose, i watch many flash videos and my computer gets laggy. My CPU is the bottleneck and im trying to find a way around it.

You can sometimes find the video files stored by the flash player with awfully mangled filenames in /tmp. The media player VLC will play them much more efficiently than through the browser /w the flash plug-in.

You just copy a flash video in /tmp to your home directory and add a .flv to the end of the copied file and play it in VLC. There is also various downloader applications you can look for in synaptic to save you from fishing around your system for the flash files.



HTH

 

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Yep, just pause and let it download, when the the second progress bar completes go to root/tmp and save or play.
 

Oh yes. I forget to mention you have to wait for it to finish d/loading. Here in Australia, our internet speeds are so fast that stuff is downloaded before I even click on it.

[FritoBandito]

As an update, the download helper was good for the flash videos
BUT
switching to LDXE seemed to make everything else much snappier, Compiz had the same effect at times but make some things seems slower.