Yeah- I basically just use kde, and I know it takes a lot of resources. I figure with an Athlon 1700+ XP T-bred B on an Abit KX7-333 DDR mobo, I can afford a little kde eye-candy- and I like all the nice features. Never have been a Gnome fan.
It's not that I'm that unhappy with linux performance, but on the rare ocassion I do boot into windows XP Pro, I do notice a real difference in computer response, then I start thinking there must be something I can do about it. I guess I'm just one of those perfectionist types that like to get every ounce of performance out of a system I can, down to the last nth %, even if it's hard to tell the difference. But I guess the bottom line is, I hardly ever use windows these days, so that speaks for itself. I'm sold on Linux, and I like playing around with all the different aspects of it. It's like I've become a 60 year old kid in a giant toy store. Besides, it's good mental exercise trying to keep up with all the new stuff coming out. I agree that the video drivers need some serious attention- I've still never been able to get the Nvidia or ATI drivers, either rpm, or source, to install correctly. Maybe next time I'll figure it out. My last attempt at the ATI linux drivers apparently completely removed XFree86, and I never figured out why. Robert Crawford On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:17 am, Jack Coates wrote: > Not to turn it into a WM flamewar, but are you using KDE or GNOME? > Either fullblown environment can make the experience a lot slower in my > experience. > > It's also possible and fun to throw Linux's performance down the stairs > in ways that Windows simply won't do, such as pixmapped themes and > running graphic programs in the root-window. Go easy on the eye-candy, > get faster response. > > Last but not least, there are definitely issues with XFree86 that won't > be going away. For one thing, X is a user space program and the Win32 > GDI is kernel space, ring 0, ever since NT 4.0. This is changing with > DRI, but at the same cost of decreased stability which plagues NT video. > Also, X's video card support tends to be a bit flaky in my experience, > which is to say it's a crap-shoot if running a 3d program is going to > produce software rendering, hardware rendering, static across the top > 3rd of my screen, or a video card lockup (all of these have happened > this week with a Voodoo3 and an i815). I don't think that XFree86 gets > the same sort of attention that Windows drivers get, since driver > debugging that goes past the point of "it works on the primary > developer's machine" is not very fun. > > dos centavos, > Jack > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 21:36, flacycads wrote: > > OK- you're correct- I don't speak for everyone, and my choice of words > > was unfortunate. Please accept my apology. > > > > However, my experience on several dual boot boxes with different > > versions of windows and Linux has always been that overall computer > > performance is significantly better when booted to windows. I'm sorry, > > but that's what happens- there's no question about it. Of course I do > > have any windows installation I run highly tweaked and tuned to > > perfection( as good as is possible), and perhaps I can tweak my Linux > > installs a little more than I presently have. > > > > Robert Crawford > > > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:26 pm, et wrote: > > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:01 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: 02/25/03 05:10 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control? > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > Anyone who dual boots with windows on the same hardware knows that > > > > windows > > > > ...
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