Re: XP is garbage




learning@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Linux is as bloated as windwoes. The latest versions of Slackware barely
>run on my P166 128M laptop.

You had a choice, and you chose to install everything and then to
run Gnome or KDE. The latest version of Slackware runs just fine
on my 100 Hhz 486 with 100MB of RAM.

>Using a crappy, cheapo desktop that you have to modify with a text editor
>is stupid and totally unproductive. Of course it will be leaner and a bit
>quicker, but its also totally unusable to all but the most hardcore users.
>
>If Windows had ugly, stripped down desktops that were as nonfunctional
>and impossible to work with as IceWM to replace its dopey interface, it
>would scream as well as anything out there.

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. Unless you can write a GUI that does what the
Microsoft, KDE or Gnome desktop does while being fast on your P166,
I suggest that you face the fact that the feature-rich GUIs use a lot
of system resources. "But Cap'n, she's goin' warp six as it is!
If we go any faster, those dilythium grytals canna' take the strain!"

>I have been wanting to see linux run anywhere as near as quick and nimble
>as Windows

You said before "as bloated as windwoes." Now you are saying that
Windows is faster. Which is it?

>I have spent too much time with hdparms, setting up all kinds of
>switches, turning off services, and recompiling kenels. It helps
>a little, but I have never seen linux run appear as fast as OS/2,
>or even windows2K on equal hardware. In the scheme of life, if
>you spend fifty hours tweaking a linux distro, (snip)

You could have spent that 50 hours working at $10/hour and bought
a mac-mini for $500. [ http://www.apple.com/macmini/ ].
Or you could have bought a $500 1GHz laptop at wal-mart.
[ http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3504708 ].






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