On 1/25/19 11:12 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 1/25/19 3:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On the contrary, I have found quite some users that claim their computers are faster running Linux than Windows.
Exactly. Most, in fact, I'd say.
In fact I did say:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Ubuntu-faster-than-Windows/answer/Liam-Proven
As a comparison, I just recently bought myself a Sony Vaio P as a toy. It's a very unusual take on the netbook form factor -- a very wide but tiny PC.
It is maxed out with 2GB of RAM.
It boots Windows 10 in about 5 minutes, and launching even simple apps provokes a frenzy of swapping.
It runs Xubuntu LTS quite comfortably. Chromium and Firefox are unusable, but as a portable writing tool, it's quite nice.
My partner's fairly high-end quad-core Core i5 PC with nVidia graphics, 8GB of RAM and a big 1TB hard disk takes several minutes to get to the login screen in Win10.
In Linux Mint it boots to the desktop in about a quarter of the time.
In general use as a desktop OS, Linux is indeed *noticeably* faster than Windows.
This is one thing that attracts many people to it in the first place: it's a way to revive old PCs, without the expense (and difficulty) of getting a current Windows licence, reinstalling the OS, finding all the drivers, replacing all the apps, etc.
As such, there's considerable competition for who can be the fastest full-function Linux, with a full desktop, selection of apps, and so on.
My Toshiba laptop with a 4th generation i7 CPU, 12 GB RAM, and an SSD takes longer for the BIOS to start than for Linux to boot. Of course it is tuned, which emphasizes that out-of-the-box tests without specs mean nothing. Slightly off topic, but an opportunity to teach/preach: I volunteer one day a week at a non-profit organization in Kansas City that refurbishes donated computers and resells them at low cost to low-income people. A Core 2 Duo desktop system with Windows 10 license, 4 GB RAM, and an 80 GB hard drive sells for $25. Those systems are dogs as far as performance, but the interesting part for this discussion is what happens to the donations that have even less performance. If the machine runs 64-bit code, then we install openSUSE 15.0 with an LXDE desktop, a single ext4 partition on the hard drive and a full complement of applications. These machines boot faster than Windows systems with i7 CPUs! Most importantly to our users, these systems are FREE unless they need wifi, which we sell for $10. For systems that can only run 32-bit code, we install Q4OS with a configuration as close as possible to the 64-bit versions. We have distributed more than 100 Linux systems into the community. To my knowledge, only one has been returned "because it was not Windows"! Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org