Re: XP is garbage

In <115ntvapulfg5e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 04/12/05
at 04:31 PM, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> said:



>So you refuse to give up the eye candy, yet you complain when it slows
>down your old laptop. Microsoft, KDE and Gnome have all found that
>running a feature-rich GUI with lots of eye candy uses a fair amount of
>system resources.

But if you remove the desktop from windows, it will scream as well. Its
not the OS that is bloated (although it is rather poorly knitted together,
its the GUI.) When its time to compare, you have to keep it apples and
apples. What makes windows slow and clunky is the desktop. The same thing
applies to linux. When you take away the"eye candy" GUI, linux picks up
dramatically. So the advantage of linux is not "its speed" but the fact
that you can run it without the GUI. Few want to do command line work, and
few OS's have such incredibly inane file naming conventions as *nux :-)


>You could have spent that 50 hours working at $10/hour and bought a

Neither of those run the CAD programs I am forced to use. Plus, where do
you live that there are no taxes, and no social security/medicaid
deductions? :-)

JB





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