KCLUG --> KCMUG?
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at opus1.com
Sat Mar 2 00:21:14 CST 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
> ... everything I did in M$ was so
> -=painfully slow=-. I have gotten spoiled by how much faster
> everything is in Linux.
Oh bull$hit.
> Then we also did a defrag on the disk, we let that run overnight.
So you're talking old, slow hardware.
> True it takes KDE a while to come up after logging in, but each app
> isn't really slow. Some are, but not many. At least the ones I use.
As long as you don't try to browse the net, use a GUI file manager, or mail
client, or do most of the normal GUI tasks, yeah, sure, it's "faster". So's
DOS.
GUI speed is NOT one of Linux' bragging rights - as long as we use the X11
model, it can't be, more integrated systems will outperform it on equivalent
hardware.
Yes, I've seen a Linux box that appeared faster than a Windows box - but it
was Linux on new hardware vs. four or five year old hardware running Windows
98.
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