Re: Why is Linux so slow?

From: matt (matt_at_wholesale***.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:00:44 +0000 (UTC)

Moo Shu wrote:

> Greetings and salutations!
> I've just installed Linux Suse 9.1 on my Intel PIV 2.8GHZ Asus system
> with 1
>
> Giga of memory and quite honestly I am somewhat disappointed.
>
> I chose a kde system because from what I have read Suse seems to favor
> this system over a gnome system. My video board is an Nvidia MX400 and
> my disk drives are Western Digital 200 Gig 7200 RPM with the 8 megabit
> buffer.
>
> I allowed the YAST to ret rive all of the updates, and WOW! was there
> a LOT of security updates as well as install things in a default
> setting, which possibly might be my problem. I have IDEDMA turned on
> for all drives.
> My opinion of this system is that it runs far to slowly compared to my
> Windows XP system which uses the exact same hardware. Loading a large
> directory with kde takes forever and if I am playing a video from a
> CDROM and try to do other things I get skips and freezes. Speaking of
> freezes, from what I have read Linux does not seem to lock up yet my
> system has locked up several times copying very large directories. I
> get a kde handler message with some sigv error.
> The same function works fine with Windows.
> Displaying graphics seems to be a problem for Linux because it is very
> slow compared to Windows. Even repainting a screen is slower. I am
> using the nvidia driver but it was just as bad with the nv generic
> driver.
> It took me a week to get my printer to work and 3 weeks to get sound
> to work.
> I had to compile the ALSA in order to make it work.
> All in all I think Suse is a big rip off especially considering that
> when I called them for my free technical support they said it only
> included basic installation.
> I guess when it comes to Linux basic installation means a text prompt,
> no sound and no printing.
>
> Fortunately I returned Suse and got my money back.
> Moo Shu

I myself on the other hand, have just installed SUSE 9.1 on my Athlon 3400+
1gb ram ect

No problems, install went smoothly, auto configured all the network settings
and im up and running immediatley with everything running smooth and
stable.

I'M a first time Linux user and Im very pleased. Ive one other machine and a
laptop, Both these will be getting the "linux treatment" in the next week.

reading these groups you could be forgiven for thinking that Linux is
unsupportive of this hardware, intolerant of that setup, and impossible to
work with.

For most people this just isint,true.

First time user here, doing quite nicely, thank you :)

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