Performance shock (BS)

[Andrew VanSpronsen]

I just accidentally saw the contents of this post, from Tom, and I could not 
believe what I saw. 

A couple of things came to mind after reading this post and the rest that 
follow"

Where is the apology? 

Why do we assume that because the poster chose to be rude and exhibit 
anti-social behaviour that he knows what he is talking about and we should 
understand that he probably spends most of his time in front of his pc? What 
an insult the guys who actually know what they are talking about and offer 
real help and advice.

It is too bad the original poster has decided to leave and Tom will remain. 
We need people who are actually helpful and in this case it might be worth 
our time to get more info from the original poster. Maybe there is something 
that can be done to the benefit of the community to make Ubuntu and better 
product out of the box, or off the cd has the case may be :-)

Andrew

On 4/23/05, Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 22:22 -0400, Andy wrote:
> > > Windows is just so fast to use by comparison. Firefox starts
> > > up almost instantly and doesn't hog the cpu once a few tabs are open,
> > > windows explorer (atrociously designed though it is) lets me get
> > > instant access to any part of the filesystem, unlike nautilus which
> > > kind of oozes around. It occurs to me that due to my pleasure re so
> > > many aspects of using linux (esp Gnome, which I love) in general, and
> > > Ubuntu in particular, I had just got used to how slow it is.
> > >
> >
> > I've notices this too. Windows definitely boots faster and often has
> > a faster application start-up time. Comparing the start-up time of
> > OOo2 Writer (which is faster than 1.x) to Word is frustrating. I use
> > Word sometimes at work on a MUCH slower machine than my laptop, and
> > Word is definitely snappier than Writer.
> >
> >
> > > Don't hate/attack me for saying this. I'm certainly not going back to
> > > Windows (there's too much I can't do on it without impossibly
> > > expensive software), and I'm not criticising Ubuntu (whose developers
> > > have done a great job). I don't really care either if you 'disagree'
> > > with my comparison (it wouldn't mean anything to me, because on my
> > > system, the speed difference is unarguable). But I'd love to know if
> > > there's either any general/fundamental reason why linux is just never
> > > going to be as fast Windows as a desktop, or if there are any things I
> > > might do to speed it up.
> > >
> >
> > No hate here.
> >
> > I really hope that as Desktop Linux continues to mature, this will
> > start to even out. The boot time of the computer isn't as important
> > in my view as the start-time of applications like OOo. I know one
> > thing that Windows does is pre-load certain parts of IE and Office.
> > One thing you can do to speed OOo up is to download ooqstart. There
> > is a Gnome version that you might like.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Two caveats -- it's not an issue of unnecessary services (I'm
> > > comparing fresh installs here), and I don't want to use a ligher
> > > environment (Gnome's clean design and facilities have become integral
> > > to the way I work).
> > >
> > > --
> 
> I just accidentally saw the contents of this post and I could not
> believe what I saw.
> 
> I've been testing desktops for over two years and one half years now and
> to say that Microsoft Windows runs faster than Linux one the same
> configurations is just wrong.
> 
> If in fact you are experiencing such an aberrant behavior, then you know
> how to tune Windows and don't know how to configure Linux.
> 
> Otherwise, this thread is a Microsoft disinformation effort. Either way,
> it's despicable. If you don't know enough about Linux to tune up Open
> Office, then you need to do you homework.
> 
> Also, if you're running lots of services -- as in server mode -- compare
> the performance of Linux to Windows 2000 server running the same number
> of services.
> 
> No way Windows on a comparable platform outperforms Linux. I've proven
> it hundreds of times.
> 
> Adelstein
> 
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