On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:39:32AM +0200, Jan-Thomas Czornack wrote:
> > Ok, I'll take your word for it, but I had to jab when a W2k user was the
> > first to complain.
> >
> > While I have the Anything-but-Windows Spotlight, I'd like to point out
> > that Windows 2000 requires a substantial amount of hardware to run on,
> > whereas Linux runs on a 386+. I'm going to step out on a limb and say you
> > probably paid mucho money to upgrade to a new PC just so you
> > could run W2k
> > while I run Linux on everything from my toaster and Palm Pilot on up.
>
> Thats true if you don't use Gnome or KDE. I used Linux Mandrake with Gnome
> and KDE and they are definitely slower than the Win2k GUI. Also the starting
> of applications is much faster on Windows. I was able to compare this with
> XEmacs, Netscape and StarOffice. I used Linux until last year and than tried
> (just for fun) Win2K. I'm now using Xemacs, SSH, CVS, LaTeX on Win2K and it
> works fine. (on a K6 233)
You don't need Gnome or KDE to use X on Linux. For example, when I do
use X (which is actually somewhat rare for me, because I usually use
the console for everything other than looking at images), I use fvwm2,
which is FAR lighter than Gnome or KDE (my linux distro, LinuxPPC,
came with both Gnome or KDE, but I disabled them along with gdm
because they use lots of processor time that could be devoted to other
things and X by itself, even if it just sits there doing nothing,
still unnecessarily uses processor time). And what you said about
XEmacs, Netscape, and StarOffice: those are probably some of the
largest and most bloated software for Linux, so your comparison here
is false. I use GNU Emacs, lynx and mutt for the purposes that those
three programs serve and it's REALLY FAST (and this is on my old, slow
180MHz PPC604e box - switching from fragile old MacOS to Linux made
the operation of my box MUCH faster (I've noticed that booting
winblows on the machines at my school, which are generally faster than
my home machine, is MUCH slower than booting my home machine)). In
addition, I have to note that Winblows actually preloads certain
programs, such as Internet Explorer, creating a false impression of
speed.
--
Yes, I know my enemies.
They're the teachers who tell me to fight me.
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite.
All of which are American dreams.
- Rage Against The Machine
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