Gnome GUI seems slugish, any ideas or optimizations?

[Edward]

Marc M wrote:
> I agree with Ovidiu.   FC's implementations of GNOME have been very 
> bloated for me.  KDE is much better.  I would try something else if I 
> knew what to try, that was super-fast.  Next install time I will 
> probably try to unload a lot of apps to speed things up, there is a lot 
> that I just don't need.   
> 
> Marc

Heard good things about Xfce.

Regards,
Ed.