Linux. It's all about LIES AND DENIAL.

From: The Homo K (the_homo_k_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/28/05 

Date: 27 Aug 2005 17:39:05 -0700

The Linux community is comprised of sicko zealots who will try and
foist Linux on unsuspecting fools just to sucker them into Linux.
The truth is Linux sucks. I have used Suse and Mandrake as well as
Mandrival and they all are so slow it's not even funny.
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.
Windows XP does it in 3 seconds, every single time.
Juk takes 2 hours to add the above mp3s to it's database.
Amarok crashed trying to do it.
Winamp takes 7 minutes.
Musicmatch takes 4 minutes.

Openoffice takes 45 seconds to start.
MSoffice 2003 takes 3 seconds.
k3b takes 4 minutes to burn a 650mg CD.
Nero takes 2.7 minutes.
Firefox with Linux takes 20 seconds to load, 10 seconds with Windows.
Internet Explorer takes 2 seconds or less to load.

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

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

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.

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.

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