Tim Smith <[email protected]> writes: > In article <[email protected]>, > chrisv <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you really think that "ratios of slowness" need to be calculated? >> Sheesh, man, you're running off a CD. You can hear it and see the >> results. You just throw-out the results of the "speed test" because >> you're running off a freaking CDROM. NO ONE is going to assume or >> expect that the speed is _at all_ representative of what it's like >> when it's running off HD. >> >> Jeezez. Most people aren't THAT stupid, much less 99% of them. >> >> >> I am not exactly unversed with computers (having written my own >> >> bootstrap loaders and BIOSes and target compilers and whatnot). And >> >> still I was quite unsure what difference to expect when installing >> >> Knoppix on hard disk as compared to running from CD. >> >> So? Is it not reasonable to assume that a PC operating system would >> be "reasonably responsive" when installed on a modern PC? >> >> >> And yes, the impression "sluggish and basically not useful" can come >> >> from a live CD. >> >> For the exceptionally dull-witted, maybe. Most would recognize that >> it's a limited trial, amazing in that it works at all! > > I can't hear the CD drive on my PC. My PC is under my desk, and I > usually have a TV or radio on when I'm doing stuff on the PC. > > Furthermore, the average person only runs kind of thing on a PC directly > from a CD--the installer program that comes with the Windows programs he > has purchased. A decently constructed installation CD will mostly just > be copying stuff off the CD, not seeking a lot, and should be laid out > so that goes fast. Hence, installation programs won't give the average > person a good opportunity to notice the CDs are slow at seeking. > > Finally, a decent fraction of consumers will have experience with > running console games of CDs. They get decent performance there. > > There's simply nothing in their experience to indicate that a live CD > should be slow, and there are things in their experience to indicate > that it could be fast.
Linosuck and chrisv's arguments are a prime indicator of "slopware" thinking. They don't have one iota of a clue for how the average user thinks or uses a PC. -- In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you’re linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. — Dennis Miller _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
