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Why Windows is Slow
« on: 29 March 2006, 22:31 »
Quote from: "Slashdot/New York times"
         hype7 writes "The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor - legacy support - and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product. From the article: 'Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down ... That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation.'"

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/0912246
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html?ex=1301115600&en=d0c02cd75d5822fb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #1 on: 29 March 2006, 22:55 »
No, the real truth is anti-virus software running in the background, if you disable it then the performance is acceptable.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #2 on: 29 March 2006, 23:22 »
No ... the untruth is that Window$ is BULLSHIT !!! The only way to fix it is to destroy it :D
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #3 on: 29 March 2006, 23:30 »
I norice a 0.3% performence difference between anti virus running and not running, then again I don't use Norton.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #4 on: 30 March 2006, 00:04 »
Probably not if you're running some fuck off dual core 3.2GHz 1GB of RAM box but it does make a difference on my pusy 1.8GHz 256MB machine.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #5 on: 30 March 2006, 00:29 »
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Probably not if you're running some fuck off dual core 3.2GHz 1GB of RAM box but it does make a difference on my pusy 1.8GHz 256MB machine.

Im runing a 1.8 A64 with 1GB ram.

my anti-virus only uses about 5-6MB,10MB max ram just sitting there in the background. Im using Avast
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #6 on: 30 March 2006, 00:41 »
Reading the Fine Article reveals that in this context "Slow" means "slow to release."  The article has nothing to do with the operation of the computer.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #7 on: 30 March 2006, 00:46 »
Don't you just hate it when titles don't quite tell what it's about. Especially since most people quit reading after a few incredibly boring and meaningless sentences ... a fine article indeed.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #8 on: 30 March 2006, 07:50 »
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Reading the Fine Article reveals that in this context "Slow" means "slow to release."  The article has nothing to do with the operation of the computer.

Bingo.  I suspected this right away, because - gasp! - Windows isn't that slow at all.  At least not any currently released version; we'll have to see next year.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #9 on: 8 April 2006, 14:40 »
Windows of the box is not slow.

But once you've got a anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall/drivers/other software that doesn't come out of the box installed ... it chokes up. especially at booting when its trying to access 40 different places on the hard drive simultaneously. I'm pretty sure some other security updates add bloat here and there.

the original install of win2000 on my laptop used 45mb of memory from a clean boot. DSL uses 30mb. by the time I had the drivers installed and DX8.1 it was at 65mb. I have disabled all the ports and just use DSL really. But 2000 really is nippy.

no linux distro will ever compare to 95 in speed and I'm pretty sure XP boots faster than Vector Linux SOHO.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #10 on: 8 April 2006, 16:52 »
Use initng if you're concerned about how fast a GNU/Linux system boots up.

More distros should really start using it.
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #11 on: 11 April 2006, 17:31 »
your "slow  pusy" rig ???
mine is even worse!
460 mhz
128 mb sdram
with a 30 gb hdd
and a Nvidia Geforce MX 100/200
and yes my sys boots prety faster

it is not the os it is the Setings !@
it is said in the god damn articles on the main site !!!
what do u complain when you destroyed a perfectly good system
by puting an XP shit on it !
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #12 on: 14 April 2006, 03:10 »
Quote from: piratePenguin
Use initng if you're concerned about how fast a GNU/Linux system boots up.

More distros should really start using it.

I'm not aware of a single distro that uses it right now...
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #13 on: 14 April 2006, 04:58 »
Quote from: piratePenguin
Use initng if you're concerned about how fast a GNU/Linux system boots up.

More distros should really start using it.


Is that related to the projects to use makefiles for the init procedures?  I read about those... lightning fast.  

Have you used it PiratePenguin?
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Re: Why Windows is Slow
« Reply #14 on: 14 April 2006, 19:36 »
Is it  compatible with Ubuntu?
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