Confusing blog (about Windows "slowness")
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Twitter helping, I stumbled upon this news: "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."[^] Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed". So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now? Or maybe downloading torrent would be faster? Or maybe, I don't know, Ubuntu coffee machine would be way faster?
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Twitter helping, I stumbled upon this news: "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."[^] Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed". So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now? Or maybe downloading torrent would be faster? Or maybe, I don't know, Ubuntu coffee machine would be way faster?
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Twitter helping, I stumbled upon this news: "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."[^] Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed". So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now? Or maybe downloading torrent would be faster? Or maybe, I don't know, Ubuntu coffee machine would be way faster?
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
I call bullsh♥t, since it's pretty hard to verify his proof. And even if we can, it only proves that he had access to source code of Windows kernel (WRK anyone) not that he actually worked on it.
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Twitter helping, I stumbled upon this news: "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."[^] Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed". So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now? Or maybe downloading torrent would be faster? Or maybe, I don't know, Ubuntu coffee machine would be way faster?
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
There are so many distros of Linux around it's difficult to single out one over another without upsetting someone. Of course, slowness is a subjective matter. Kernel isn't really the issue, a bloated UI is the problem in most cases. My own experiences are with Ubuntu (primary distro), my own PC runs on Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and it's very responsive (once I'd turned off Network automount). The main distro is a bit slower to respond using the standard Gnome desktop. As always, it's available system memory which can also impact performance, this is very noticeable when Ubuntu Software Centre crashes (pretty much constantly) on every launch. Seems to need way more memory than any other application I have to use. I stopped using Fedora when they started demanding newer graphics cards for rendering a (imho) crappier modern UI. I was happy using Fedora since 2003/4. I'd rather use XFCE desktop now, and that's purely for responsiveness.
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Twitter helping, I stumbled upon this news: "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."[^] Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed". So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now? Or maybe downloading torrent would be faster? Or maybe, I don't know, Ubuntu coffee machine would be way faster?
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
Super Lloyd wrote:
...Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed".
So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now?I started with Ubuntu several years ago (8.04) and was thoroughly impressed with the speed on my aging Dell hardware. It was noticeably faster than any Windows OS I had used (including the XP on the same dual boot hardware). ... but uh oh, I upgraded to the Unity interface and the situation severely reversed itself. The Unity interface is so poorly designed and the performance so bad I really can't use it to develop any more. I still have it as a server but it will not survive long. I have upgraded a few things but these minor changes are not enough to help. I have several other linux machines which are useful and performant, but I'm afraid that Ubuntu has lost its way.
-- Harvey
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Super Lloyd wrote:
...Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed".
So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now?I started with Ubuntu several years ago (8.04) and was thoroughly impressed with the speed on my aging Dell hardware. It was noticeably faster than any Windows OS I had used (including the XP on the same dual boot hardware). ... but uh oh, I upgraded to the Unity interface and the situation severely reversed itself. The Unity interface is so poorly designed and the performance so bad I really can't use it to develop any more. I still have it as a server but it will not survive long. I have upgraded a few things but these minor changes are not enough to help. I have several other linux machines which are useful and performant, but I'm afraid that Ubuntu has lost its way.
-- Harvey
Thanks, good to know!
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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There are so many distros of Linux around it's difficult to single out one over another without upsetting someone. Of course, slowness is a subjective matter. Kernel isn't really the issue, a bloated UI is the problem in most cases. My own experiences are with Ubuntu (primary distro), my own PC runs on Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and it's very responsive (once I'd turned off Network automount). The main distro is a bit slower to respond using the standard Gnome desktop. As always, it's available system memory which can also impact performance, this is very noticeable when Ubuntu Software Centre crashes (pretty much constantly) on every launch. Seems to need way more memory than any other application I have to use. I stopped using Fedora when they started demanding newer graphics cards for rendering a (imho) crappier modern UI. I was happy using Fedora since 2003/4. I'd rather use XFCE desktop now, and that's purely for responsiveness.
Interesting thoughts!
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I call bullsh♥t, since it's pretty hard to verify his proof. And even if we can, it only proves that he had access to source code of Windows kernel (WRK anyone) not that he actually worked on it.
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Haha, might very well be indeed!!
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Super Lloyd wrote:
...Now I am confused, in my many episodic forays across the years into the Linux world I have NEVER been blow away by "any superior speed".
So, what's your opinion, is Ubuntu way faster now?I started with Ubuntu several years ago (8.04) and was thoroughly impressed with the speed on my aging Dell hardware. It was noticeably faster than any Windows OS I had used (including the XP on the same dual boot hardware). ... but uh oh, I upgraded to the Unity interface and the situation severely reversed itself. The Unity interface is so poorly designed and the performance so bad I really can't use it to develop any more. I still have it as a server but it will not survive long. I have upgraded a few things but these minor changes are not enough to help. I have several other linux machines which are useful and performant, but I'm afraid that Ubuntu has lost its way.
-- Harvey
I moved to Lubuntu when Unity made my laptop sluggish and slow. Not a single problem in sight from there on, and I'm quite satisfied with the product. My Windows OS is out of commission for now however, so I've been taking the liberty to install other Linux OS's to restore my data. Lubuntu is light and fast mind you, but you still have a lot to install after that, since it comes with bare minimals, I had to install GCC in order to install some applications as of late, and have been making great progress in coding Python without the Lag that Ubuntu 12.10 gave me.