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On Sun, 2006-02-07 at 18:07 +0530, Arjun Shankar wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Okey, I didn't really bother about this till I saw OpenOffice running</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on Windows machines at the place where I train. OpenOffice works</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">REALLY slow on my notebook (running only Ubuntu, so I can't really</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">compare, how it is on other operating systems myself), but it's</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">reasonably fast on those windows machines, which arent really all that</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">'better' than my litle piece of computing power.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">So why is it that something thats open source is faster on a non-free</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">platform, than one thats free?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I know this isn't exactly related to ubuntu; still...</FONT>
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I think this is an artifact of X. X is a bloated pig in comparison even to Windows (!). I've always found X to be sluggish (since my days on Sun workstations in the dark ages). Get some of the lighter window managers (XFCE, fluxbox, etc.) and it's OK, but the full-featured ones? Painful. For example I can't reliably drag things. X will get so screwed up refreshing the window/icon/whatever of the object I'm dragging that the mouse "loses" the item. If I'm in a folder with a lot of files and trying to drag one to the desktop it's even more painful. The cursor will "lose" the item I'm dragging and 9 times out of 10 will pick up another one. I've become very used to using ^X/^V instead of dragging and dropping as a result. Similar problems exist with selecting text or anything like that.<BR>
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