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. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org