I do have Vista.. but other than occasional crashes I do not see any speed problems on PCBNew. So I too prefer Ubuntu, its better Yukku
________________________________ From: o00batman00o <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, February 13, 2010 5:39:20 PM Subject: [kicad-users] Re: windows 7 new laptop old 1.4ghz liux ubuntu laptop has faster refreshing It seems there is some performance issue since windows vista. I run kicad on ubuntu via VirtualBox. By this way it's 10 times faster than directly on Windows 7. I did not found any workaround for the moment. >From my investigation it look like a poor OpenGL implementation since windows >Vista. Using a PC with or without graphique card has no performance impact. So >my conclusion is that there is no OpenGL hardware support since windows Vista. >Maybe Microsoft wants favor directX.
