Performance shock (BS)

[John Ughrin]

> From: Andy Choens <gunksta at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Performance shock (BS)
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> On 4/25/05, A1ex <radsky at ncia.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >No way Windows on a comparable platform
> outperforms Linux. I've proven
> > >it hundreds of times.
> > >
> > >Adelstein
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > How do you prove such an allegation?    I want to
> prove to some
> > unbelievers that Linux outperforms
> > Windows.
> > 
> > alex

> 
> You can't.  As has already been stated here a half
> million times,
> Windows does things in a way that gives the user the
> perception that
> Windows is faster.  Because of this, windows "feels"
> faster.  All you
> can do is explain the long lists of facts that have
> already been given
> here.  Right now Desktop Linux "feels" a little
> slower, even if it
> really isn't.
> 

hmm...This doesn't match my experience, but I do have
an interesting tidbit to add. I used to have M$Office
_and_ OpenOffice installed on my XP. Then my HD
crashed. New drive, new XP install, Ubuntu
install...hmmm...I decided to experiment with just
using OpenOffice. So far no problems, but one
peculiarity. Without OfficeXP installed, OpenOffice
(and almost everything else) opens much more quickly
in XP. Whatever the overhead OfficeXP adds to enable
its "quickloading" features must be pretty costly (at
least on my setup).

P.S. I never found OfficeXP loaded that quickly
anyway. ::shrug:: Makes no difference to me now, I
have no use for that behemoth on my HD.

P.P.S. One of the reasons I finally got into Linux was
the Knoppix distro that came with Marcel Gagné's
_Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death
Goodbye!_  Which, oddly enough, ran faster from the CD
than XP did from my HD.

Anyway, good luck.



==
"Faith without works is nothing,
 works without faith is still...ah...pretty good."
Jon Stewart, _The Daily Show_ 1/18/2005

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