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Linux as a Desktop
Master of Reality:
first of all, completely ignore mose of winXP users post, *most* of it is filled with blatant lies.
When i first started using linux i was the same way, i didnt know which of the programs did what.
When I installed Red Hat I went through each package that was available and checked out what most of them did and took only the ones I wanted. If your using Mandrake, I wouldnt suggest using the 'recommended' install. If your using Red Hat there is a couple different choices of prepackaged installation modes. I always use 'custom' so i can choose out of the thousands of free high quality software that comes with it. I'm not sure how good the red hat pre-selected installs are, but I would recommend using KDE 3.0 which is one of the many different GUIs that come with Linux.
slave:
This was on Red Hat 7.2 with kde 2.2. Red hat focuses on GNOME instead of KDE, so they may have had crappy KDE packages. Whatever the case, KDE is slow regardless of the RAM usage. Selecting text in Konqueror is slow and makes the computer choppy. No KDE app starts up as fast as a Windows app, and Windows is supposedly "bloated." Right now, I have IE, Kazaa, Photoshop 7, mirc, and MSN messenger running under Windows XP, and my CPU usage is about 4 percent and I have 380 out of 512 MB free. Mandrake Linux 8.2, on the other hand, consumes over half my RAM with no programs loaded at all under KDE. I looked on the KDE system guard (the KDE equivilant to the Windows task manager) and X alone was eating up over 270 MB of my memory! What an outrage! Equally outrageous was the fact that on this ultra-fast system (1.73 ghz athlon, geforce 4, half gig ram) KDE took over 15 seconds to start, (more than the whole Windows XP OS takes to start)resizing and moving windows in KDE was choppy, and frequently used programs like Konqueror took over 2 seconds to start, whereas IE, Office, etc load instantly under Windows. You can interpret all this any way you want, but I see it as proof that KDE under Linux is just as bloated, if not more, than any version of Windows.
Master of Reality:
*cough*crack*cough*
slave:
quote: *cough*crack*cough*
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Maybe that hacking cold of yours would go away if you got out of that dark UNIX dungeon and stopped pecking out perl scripts.
choasforages:
actally, if you want a fast distro, go grab the redhat 7.3 installer that is xfs enabled. with xfs, i nolonger noticed bottlenecks in disk io as much. ext2 ext3 ntfs fat32 all those fs's are suck compared to xfs, and for the uninclined, it is a full featured journald filesystem that can fsck it self in less then 10 seconds. /*hint, it is was devoloped by sgi to run as fast as possible*/
ps, xpluser, did you use the nvidia glx drivers
[ June 13, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]
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