[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

[Kris Douglas]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote:
>  > Matthew Wild wrote:
>  > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson
>  > > <christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> Hi there,
>  > >>
>  > >>  My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's
>  > >>  websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as
>  > >>  this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP
>  > >>  back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him.
>  > >>
>  > >>  I've just installed Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flash and a Java runtime
>  > >>  environment and seen how it runs.
>  > >>
>  > >>  Strangely Firefox runs about twice as fast under Win XP than on Hardy
>  > >>  (although Hardy is on a laptop which is twice as powerful). Rendering
>  > >>  and application response are greatly improved under Windows and Flash
>  > >>  content flys.
>  > >>
>  > >>  I'm bamboozled to say the least!
>  > >>
>  > >>  Are these particular applications created specifically for Windows
>  > >>  then ported to Linux? It's wierd, I've tried this on different
>  > >>  hardware and find it to be the case on the machines I've tested.
>  > >>
>  > >>  I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why
>  > >>  it would be so?
>  > >>
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > > If you are only talking about when flash pages are open, then yes, I
>  > > notice it too. My CPU is constantly at about 10%.
>  > >
>  > > This is to be expected, Flash is closed-source after all, and you are
>  > > trusting a company that probably doesn't see its Linux user-base as
>  > > significant as the Windows one.
>  > >
>  > > Can't wait for Gnash to become a real alternative, until then I use
>  > > Flash as little as possible :)
>  > >
>  > > Matthew.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > Yeah, I cant wait for gnash to gather speed... Im sick of having to
>  > force 32bit firefox, just so I can go on youtube!
>  >
>  You don't need to with hardy it installs npwrapper which allows 32bit
>  apps to run inside 64bit so flash and wine both work.
>  --
>  Seek That Thy Might Know
>

It's always handy to have someone in the know =D

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