Performance shock

[Gábor Iglói]

> All these speed of loading problems may be so but, at least to me, are
> totally overshadowed by the fact that, once you load them, you can just
> leave the programs up and running almost forever.  I'll take
> slightly slowly loading apps over blue screens of death any day.

Aye! Don't take it as flaming, but:

- booting up Linux is maybe slightly slower (or even not due to XP's
"here's the desktop still you cannot do anything with it until I load
all programs" trick), but this is a thing that you need to do only
once daily or weekly :)))
- in the hands of an ordinary everyday user (I mean ORDINARY here and
not the Power User scanning for viruses and spyware every day and not
clicking on everything) the faster application launch times last for
2-3 weeks, after that the performance drops significantly due to lack
of "system maintenance" and defragmenting - while almost any flavour
of Linux system has the same speed even after years due lack of
"desintegration"/fragmentation.