Carla Schroder leaves Ubuntu for PCLinuxOS

[Liam Proven]

2009/6/17 Harold Sawyer <hrsawyer at gmail.com>:
> I use Audacity and Firefox.  I have not found any of these problems.

Nor me.

> Maybe she didn't have enough memory or not enough swap.  Everything
> need tons of memory, both real and virtual nowdays.

Generally, this is true, but Ubuntu is a lot more efficient than most
of the recent Windows versions. Windows 2000 might rival it, but
that's about all. I recently installed 9.04 on a 750MHz PC with 384MB
of RAM and it was fine, fast and responsive.


>  XP and Vista are
> much worse.

Concur.

>  Haven't wondered from Ubuntu for a few years, so I can't
> compare there.
>
> Windows 7 RC does things with much less memory.

Are you sure that's what you meant to say?

I've tried W7 RC on 2 PCs with 1GB RAM and it's sluggish on both. VERY
slow to boot and rather unresponsive. My suspicion is it needs 3G+ RAM
& a multicore processor to shine. Certainly it's /vastly/ bigger,
slower & less efficient than Ubuntu.

>  Swapping hogs the CPU
> as well as drive access.  This is a problem with all OS's from my
> perspective.

Er, well, yes, but she was describing instability and screen corruption.

I'd be more inclined to blame Kubuntu and indeed KDE itself,
personally, but even so, this sounds too drastic.

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