Performance shock (BS)

[audriusb at homelan.lt]

Quoting Michael Nowag <nub.wiki at web.de>:

Sorry, haven't red starting message. What time are you comparing?
1.	Installation? Windows and UBUNTU install very basic set of packages and have
approximately equal times. I spent 2 hours for Win XP-64 installation on my new
computer and UBUNTU installation continues something about it.
2.	System tuning? This depends on what software you are going to install. I am
tuning my Hoary-64 during 3 weeks, my son continues installing games on Win-64
- equality.
3.	Update or recovery – here Microsoft has no advantage against Linux. I am
programming on Windows 2k at work and one year ago had to restore 30GB
information after HD died. I had all copies of vital files, there was no
problem with recovering but it took me 24 working hours (compilers, MS
applications, service packs, Delphi units and so on).
4.	Graphics applications? Yes, Windows works faster, because X-window was
designed as network application with main accent on remote computing. Second
serious Linux issue is that X-window is separate user application and its
dialog with kernel takes much more time than in Windows, where GDI belongs to
kernel’s address space. Linux applications designed for OpenGL works at the
same speed as Windows applications designed for OpenGL or DirectDraw. Compare
remote computing on Linux and Windows and you’ll see quite different picture:
Linux remote computing is much faster than Window. I am using remote computing
on local network through Citrix server, VNC and Console services. All these
tools are blend shadows of X-window service. It is impossible to get screens
better than 800x640/256 colours on our 100MB/s network.

Gediminas Bukauskas

> John Ughrin wrote:
>
> >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).
> >
> >
> well...win is usually pretty fast after a fresh installation...for a
> couple of weeks...take the time OO needs now and then take it again
> in,say, 10 weeks :)
>
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