On Sunday 06 July 2003 6:30 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
You may be experiencing some of the slowness that others experienced with 8.2. I was running 8.0 on an AMD 800mhz computer and was quite happy but once I loaded 8.2, things slowed down considerably. If I tried to start OO, it would spend 3 minutes showing me the 'frame' of the window with the desktop showing through, then it would fill in the window... but still it would take about another 2 minutes for the keyboard to become active in OO. In otherwords, it was painful. 8.2 uses the 2.4.20 kernel but I was running that kernel (vanilla) in 8.0 so I knew it wasn't anything wrong with the basic kernel. When the vanilla 2.4.21 kernel was released, I started using that and all of the slowness went away and things were back to where they were in 8.0. OO comes up now in a reasonable manner and the keyboard is active as soon as the window opens. There is something 'wrong' with the 8.2 distro kernel... perhaps some patch applied that screws up the scheduler or allocation of the cpu resources. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 07/06/03 10:47 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "I pray for boredom but it never comes"