Hi! > 1. Why it is so slow? Er.......I didn't exactly get you. Slow in what sense? Boot up? And compared to which Windows, XP? I have SuSE 9.2 and Windows XP. Except for bootup time, in almost all other cases Linux runs faster than XP(atleast on my machine).
If anyone is there who knows of other versions of windows running faster than XP, please let me know! ;-) > 2. Can we make it as fast as or even more faster that windows in anyway? Maybe you are running too many unnecessary daemons in background which start at bootup. They do consume some resources. Make sure you are running only what you need. If you are talking about graphcis, well that can be an issue with latest graphics cards. But my onboard 865G graphics works faster with SuSE 9.2 than XP on same machine, and I'm telling the truth! > 3. Is there any work going on this? Most probably... on drivers for latest h/w. Especially graphics cards. > 4. What about the future of Linux or windows as desktop OS? Well, I've used 4 different Linux distributions, first Redhat, then Mandrake, then Fedora2 and then stayed with SuSE. And on the windows side, I've used 98 and XP. As far as "desktop" use is concerned, I personally feel SuSE 9.2/9.1, XP and Mandrake 10 are the best ones I've come across. I'm talking from a normal desktop PC user's perspective. SuSE and XP are clean and lean, very well polished interface, enough eye-candy, and ease of use. Mandrake is also nice with a difference (haven't used that much). So I don't think Windows user should find SuSE or Mandrake much alien. And as far as Linux on desktop is concerned, I don't see any problem if up-2-date drivers are available. User friendliness isn't an issue if you select your Linux distribution carefully. I have no idea what's in store once Longhorn is out, but I've read that its system requirements are tremendous...well, trademark M$ product! ;-) > 5. What are good things with windows to use it or with Linux to use it? Windows: Games!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Linux: Sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just show your office people how great their simple speakers sound on Linux! Another simple no lies comparison: I played Quake III Arena on XP (full version) and Quake III Arena (demo) on SuSE 9.2 as well as Mandrake 10. It rans just smoothly on both the Linux installations, without any sort of slowdown/jitters, while the same on XP did suffer some occasional slowdowns/jitters. Also, the audio effects of that game on Linux were much better than on XP. Regards, Kapil -- "The Power to Imagine, is The Power to Create!" -TTux -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
