Carla Schroder leaves Ubuntu for PCLinuxOS

[David Sanders]

> There was something /very/ badly wrong with your XP setup, then.
>
> The idle memory load of XP should be around 250MB max on a 1G machine.
> Vista idles at 600MB and Win7 is about the same.

Actually if you read up on caching in Windows 7, you'll note that it
should *always* be using a large chunk of memory for pre-fetching
various things (this is known as SuperFetch) and this does indeed
speed up desktop performance. What's the point in having "Free"
memory? It's only sitting there doing nothing. Windows 7 superfetch
seems quite capable actually, and is quite polite in freeing resources
needed for other programs.

Aside from that, if I'd been experiencing the same problems as Carla
Schroder, I would've assumed I was hitting bugs and asked for help in
the relevant forums, or perhaps on these very lists - it's not like
there's not thousands of people willing to help you get Ubuntu running
optimally. I am however of the opinion that KDE4 is a slow-motion car
wreck, and indeed I no longer bother using KDE apps at all on my
otherwise totally Gnome desktop, which is a shame as older versions of
Kopete etc were more attractive than Pidgin IMO.

My ha'penny bit.