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Why is my windoze so damned SLOW?
Gnome:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Good for you, using Gnome rather than KDE, is this for speed too? I've found KDE very slow almoast windows slow.
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I've never compared them. I think when I had Mandrake 9 a year or so back on another machine, I mainly used KDE. This time round I used Gnome by default... Hmm, might explain why some small monitoring apps (like one, think it was named Simsomething or something like that - would give a small display that would let me monitor network speed and cpu use and some other things I could choose.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I've found Windows slow for compresing fills and also renaiming files on FAT32 partitions. Linux can rename a file in less than a second on my FAT32 partition but Windows takes fucking ages. But I have found the Windows boots quicker than Linux in general.
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Yup, I've also found that Linux takes longer to boot. But... I don't boot Linux anywhere near as often, so over time I'd spend far less time booting Linux than doze.
I'm not sure what filesystem the laptop is on. Whatever comes with XP.
I've found that doze can be incredibly slow on some of the simplest of tasks.
But IME it still beats Linux for installing software - except that, again, you have to do it far more often with doze (and redo it, and redo it, and redo it, and redo it...)
Gnome:
--- Quote from: e7ement ---XP's ram management isn't great becuase by default it doesn't unload cached dll's in the memory. All can be changed by simple tweaks.
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I don't expect to be running it long enough to need to worry about tweaking it anyway.
I've had enough of fixing and tweaking doze. Once I figure out how to get Homeworld running happily under Linux (and maybe a few other games), bye bye doze. And if Trillian can run under Wine, shouldn't take to much to get Homeworld playable..)
Gnome:
--- Quote from: ShawnD1 ---Gnome, is your problem caused by hard drive lag? What you described is exactly how my computer acts when I'm transfering large amounts of data across the network, or defragging.
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But surely the Linux box - which has slower drives and was working them harder than the drive in the doze box should have suffered this more?
I expect that is the cause - doze was handling the drive poorly and loosing huge amounts of CPU time to manage what should've some sort of stream to the disk, while the Linux box was happily chugging away, occaisionally looking up in and asking in a mocking tone "Is that all you want me to do?"
(Actually, I get a image of #5 from "Short Circuit" with the regular "More data please" after churning through a ton of books, unable to be sated by mere human input - guess he was running Linux as well?)
jtpenrod:
But I have found the Windows boots quicker than Linux in general.
Sure Linux takes longer to boot since Linux draws a sharp distinction between apps and the core OS. Win incorporates apps into the OS. It boots faster, and that's a good thing since Windows users do it so often. :D
Aloone_Jonez:
On second thoughts I think it depends on the version of Windows you use. Windows 2000 and previous versions take ages to boot but Microsoft decided to make Windows XP a boot a lot faster by using a techinique they called pre-emptive booting. This involved arranging the system files on the hard disk in the correct boot order on the first boot after installation or a major change to the system. This means lots of files can be load into memory very quickly if not at the same time, while before the hard disk had to go and find each file one after the other. This is my understanding anyway.
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