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hm_murdock:
The thing that nobody realizes is that everything actually sucks. Some things suck less than others.
When you realize that nothing is actually good, and everything is only varying degrees of shit, then you'll live happier.
Pathos:
glass half empty hah?
hm_murdock:
Nah, things aren't really that bad. It's just that things aren't super duper good in technology. We're still way too early for anything to be "great".
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---BUT...gentoo seems so slow. With the gnome gui gedit takes 4 seconds to startup, and another 2 to allow input. Why? These machines were far more powerful than mine yet struggle with this simple application. It takes 2 seconds to start the gimp on mine. 0.1 seconds to start up Notepad2 my favourite text editor. I do notice how ever the OS is always instantly responsive when a program hangs unlike Windows.
--- End quote ---
Just found this: http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction
--- Quote ---The plan is to reduce the amount of memory that Gnome applications consume. Gnome is barely usable on a machine with 128 MB of RAM; contrast this with Windows XP, which is very snappy on such a configuration.
--- End quote ---
At least they're working on it.
Pathos:
These machines had 512mg ram and over 100mg free.
Linux apparently runs applications in "user mode" for security unlike microsoft which would explain it. But I think its just that gedit is not well optimised.
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