Re: Linux. It's all about LIES AND DENIAL.

From: Jim (james_at_the-computer-shop.co.uk)
Date: 08/28/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:24:30 GMT

The Homo K wrote:
> The Linux community is comprised of sicko zealots

Who're you calling a sicko zealot, Flatty?

  who will try and
> foist Linux on unsuspecting fools just to sucker them into Linux.

No suckering involved. People may choose to or not, look for themselves.

> The truth is Linux sucks.

In your completely uninformed, biased, and MicroShilled opinion.

  I have used Suse and Mandrake as well as
> Mandrival

oh, bull***.

  and they all are so slow it's not even funny.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

> Konqueror takes minutes to display a directory of 40k mp3 files
> including info and that's the same even after multiple times of opening
> the directory.

9 minutes to come up with a listing of 37,590 mp3 files over a Windows
SMB share. And when it does finally show the list, it scrolls as smooth
as you like.

> Windows XP does it in 3 seconds, every single time.

Bull.
Windows XP took only slightly less time to display the listing, but
then, trying to scroll pretty much locked the CPU. /I/ ran the
experiment and posted the timings, if you remember. XPSP1 vs. Knoppix
EKDE 3.4.

> Juk takes 2 hours to add the above mp3s to it's database.

Never used it.

> Amarok crashed trying to do it.

Never used that either.

> Winamp takes 7 minutes.

In your dreams. Even on a local RAID0, that same list took 11 minutes
(yes, SLOWER than over the network to a Linux box!!) to load into Winamp.

> Musicmatch takes 4 minutes.

Never used it.

NB: iTunes for Windows XP took 17 minutes to load the list. iTunes for
Mac OS X (Tiger on a G3/400) took 8.

>
> Openoffice takes 45 seconds to start.

Because it has to load the DLLs at load-time. And try 19 seconds on a
P4m/2.0.

> MSoffice 2003 takes 3 seconds.

Because Windows XP loads the Office and IE DLLs at /boot time/. Ever
wonder why the desktop is unusable for a few minutes after it's
apparently "ready"? It's an MS trick they've been doing since Win2K to
FUD down the advantages of loading the relevant data into memory /when/
it is called then displaying it /after/ it is completely loaded, because
it's something that Microsoft have apparently been completely unable to
even emulate.

> k3b takes 4 minutes to burn a 650mg CD.
> Nero takes 2.7 minutes.

We did the math on this and showed you to be a bullshitter, Flatty. Stop it.

> Firefox with Linux takes 20 seconds to load, 10 seconds with Windows.
> Internet Explorer takes 2 seconds or less to load.
>

5, 8 and right (read 2 paragraphs up)

> Linux transfers between 7krpm disks at about 6mb/sec.
> Windows is over 20mb/sec on the same disks.
> DMA is turned on for both.

Benchmarks, please?

>
> WindowsXP regularly gets higher data transfers on dslreports.com and it
> is consistant.
> Linux is all over the map but always slower than Windows.
>

Benchmarks, please?

> Kontact opens so slow that if you move the mouse around you get trails.
> Kontact/kmail is also very buggy at getting mail, not to mention it's
> also very slow compared to eudora.
>
>
> Machine is a 2.6ghz P4HT with 1g memory and 7k WD drives with 8mb
> buffers.
> Motherboard is Asus.
>

small fuckin' wonder you box is so slow. LCD on the board. You do
realise, don't you, that with a shitty board like that, you're not
getting the most out of the rest of your kit?

> So go ahead and bury your heads in the sand going into denial.
> You might want to take a look at "why is Linux so slow" threads because
> their seems to be an awful lot of them.
>

'Cos you parented most of 'em (go on, prove me wrong, Flatty, I defy you
to) and were shown by myself, among others who were also able and
willing to run live, side by side experiments just to show you publicly,
what a complete fraud you are.

Now, may I suggest you go out and buy a MacIntosh with Mac OS X "Tiger"
on it, and stop bothering the good people of this LINUX ADVOCACY group,
because I'm getting really tired of pointing out old answers to the same
old bull*** you keep recycling. 

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