128MB is barely enough to run Win2k and Office 97 and 450MHz is on the low end of speed. 450MHz was at its prime in 1999, four years ago. Is she really compairing it to Windows on the same hardware? She may be used to something faster for every day use. Doubling the RAM is cheap and the quickest way to improve performance. If she still doesn't like Linux she should look at open source programs for Windows. She should download a copy of The Open CD at: http://www.theopencd.org/ Keep an eye on Linux it is getting better. It may be good enough in a few years even for her. Using Open source projects on Windows is a good transition. On Sunday 06 July 2003 05:30 am, expatriate wrote:
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" "It does not start up applications as quickly as W2K" (OpenOffice definitely loads more slowly than Office2000) "Repaints take longer" (When shifting windows around)
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.
Does anyone have a different experience?
TIA & cheers