-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:30, domenica 6 luglio 2003, expatriate ha scritto:
Hello My wife is considering "upgrading" all of her company's PCs to Linux instead of continuing on the Microsoft wagon. In order to test the impact on the average user, she requested I convert her home machine to dual-boot so she could experience the issues. Her home machine is an ASUS P2BF with a Pentium III 450MHz , 128MB RAM , 120GB 7200rpm IBM HD (33MHz ATA though on the Motherboard) and a Diamond Viper V770 (NVidia2 TNT2). I chose KDE since I have many niggling issues with GNOME. Her first impressions so far are: "It is slower to boot"
Disable all the unneeded services.
"It does not start up applications as quickly as W2K" (OpenOffice definitely loads more slowly than Office2000)
OpenOffice is slower than MSOffice on Windows too. But it so much cheaper.
"Repaints take longer" (When shifting windows around)
Windows under KDE should not be repainted. You have some virtual desktops (I use 12). Use them. Desktop switching is quite fast and very usable on my systems. You only have to be use to them.
Mind you, she has an MSEE and is definitely not a Microsoft drone having studied UNIX in college. However, she is concerned that her organisation will have trouble adapting to a ""less responsive" OS on the older machines that are now running Windows 97 and 2000.
Less responsive? Do some microseconds have so much importance? Count how many $$ you save by switching to Linux. Even if Linux were unstable like Win95, and slower than XP, it should do the matter:) Praise -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/CDEz6v3ZTabyE8kRAibsAJ9idG7VQgr0rc8NOC7mv0U9johe4ACghvOJ UgH+ONCW/ZgBuIPr2aKG/os= =PlKk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----