Re: Yet another OS

* Edmund wrote in alt.os.linux:
In message <g97ra4xsgh.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, SINNER wrote:

[...]

My guess is the comparison is apples to oranges, Vette to a
Pinto. Take 2 vettes and fill one with free gas and the other with
expensive gas and see which is faster, I bet they are about the same.

Why apples and oranges?

Well, for One, Linux <> Windows.

I just installed both windows
and ubuntu, I did not do anything special to make
one faster, just a plain install.

Yes, but they install different applications and services some of which
may be running that you don't need, etc. The install does not read minds,
it has some sane defaults and leaves the tweaking up to the user.

Now you suggest KDE could be causing linux to be
rather slow, I don't care.

But you do, or you would not be making the comparison to being with and
arguing your point in this thread.

KDE or Gnome for me is
just a part of the OS just as the GUI in windows

You are wrong. The Desktop is NOT part of the OS and in windows, while
you can install a new shell, you are still running everything that
Windows MUST have up to run properly. You don't ever need to have a GUI
on a Linux box, I don't know about BeOS but try that in windows.

or BeOS is part of the OS.( for me ).
The computer is 500MHZ with about 300MB and a 16MB graphics
card. Ubuntu runs at acceptable speed but some things
are ( due to the lack of drivers? ) unusable.
Google earth gives me 1 frame every second, while under
windows it is usable, browsing a folder with pictures
is very slow ( with image viewer ). Most other things
are OK but still a little slower then under windows.

Try other applications, Image viewing for me is a breeze using any one
of a number of pieces of installed software.

Funny thing here, BeOS is a whole lot faster then
windows except for browsing a folder with pictures.

What is so funny about it? Just about every OS on the planet is less of a
resource hog than Windows.

[...]
--
David
Q: How does a hacker fix a function which
doesn't work for all of the elements in its domain?
A: He changes the domain.
.

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