Yeah, I have for the most part been using KDE and GNOME-based distributions, but I don't really think you can fault me for that because it's implicit that we're comparing a typical Windows experience with a typical Linux one.
And in all seriousness and without any desire to flame/troll or anything of the sort, you can't really say that some niche barebones Window manager is typical of Linux on the desktop.
Finally, I was just relating my own experience. Nothing more
I haven't used OS X for more than five minutes at a time so I really can't comment on its responsiveness, but yeah, prioritizing foreground tasks is no doubt a wise idea.
I know what you mean. Windows really suffers from a bad case of OS rot, a condition exacerbated by the copious amonts of malware collected by the typical user. But the UI, in my experience, is a tad snappier. That's all I was saying.
You know, I'm as pro-open source as the next guy here, but I try not to be dogmatic about it. I've played with a bunch of Linuxes from the first half of the 1990s onward and even used it professionally for a time. While there are many things I like about the OS, it does have it's faults. Like not being as user friendly as Win. Like not being as snappy as Win.
I'm really sorry if I hurt somebody's precious feelings, but a troll I certianly am not. And like I said, I'm very glad this patch is coming out and will continue to run Linux as my secondary OS.
No matter how many different flavors of Linux I installed, it just never seemed as snappy as Windows. There was always a sluggishness about it, nothing I could really put my finger on, but it was definitely there and it bothered me. I'm very glad to hear that a solution is in sight.
I hope the people at Ubunto get this out as an update as soon as possible.
If you read the article more carefully, you'll notice things like 'children with such and such personality trait TENDED to exhibit this same trait as adults.' I'll bet that the paper itself waters this down even more. The reason is that clear-cut scenarios are very rare in fields such as psychology and in the sciences in general.
The problem is that journalists (or submitters to Slashdot, Reddit and so on) tend to prefer absolute statements, so what was originally a description of a tendency becomes a new law of nature.
I still prefer CRTs. They may be "old fashioned" but at least they were scratch-proof (real glass, not plastic), could be easily cleaned (windex), and made brighter pictures. Yeah right. I'm sitting in front of a Samsung Syncmaster 959NF with scratches on the screen.
While the visible part of the CRT is glass, it turns out the antiglare/antistatic film is far from scratch-resistant. And the scratches weren't caused by a hard object, but by the toilet paper I used to clean the screen. One would think that toilet paper is soft enough but apparently that isn't the case.
I noticed this years ago and was extremely surprised that I couldn't find practically any discussion of it on the Web even after hours of Googling. Several people recognized the memory-hungry cache as a problem, but the bottom line was that since it's a kernel design fault, there isn't anything you can do about it.
In my case XP's cache allocation algorithm was a source of incredible frustration. All the movies and music I get off the Net are shared on our home network. Whenever somebody started transferring a couple of hundred MB, my computer would virtually stop responding. Although the situation improved somewhat after a memory upgrade, big transfers still cause slowdowns.
Actually, it is. In Europe lots of people convert their cars to run on natural gas, mostly because it costs way less than gasoline. Although this usually entails a small reduction in performance, the benefits as measured in lower operating costs by far outweight the disadvantages, such as lower autonomy caused by slightly higher fuel consumption and the loss of some trunk space (which is where the extra tank goes).
I'm surprised this hasn't caught on in the US, especially with the recent increase in oil prices. Cars that run on natural gas can revert to gasoline by simply flipping a switch.
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And there's always the easiest way: just scroll all the way down past the crap that's trying to get you to pay and the answers are right there.
Apparently, Google has a problem with non-public content coming up in search results.
Yeah, I have for the most part been using KDE and GNOME-based distributions, but I don't really think you can fault me for that because it's implicit that we're comparing a typical Windows experience with a typical Linux one.
And in all seriousness and without any desire to flame/troll or anything of the sort, you can't really say that some niche barebones Window manager is typical of Linux on the desktop.
Finally, I was just relating my own experience. Nothing more
I haven't used OS X for more than five minutes at a time so I really can't comment on its responsiveness, but yeah, prioritizing foreground tasks is no doubt a wise idea.
I know what you mean. Windows really suffers from a bad case of OS rot, a condition exacerbated by the copious amonts of malware collected by the typical user. But the UI, in my experience, is a tad snappier. That's all I was saying.
Nice to see somebody thinks I'm a troll.
You know, I'm as pro-open source as the next guy here, but I try not to be dogmatic about it. I've played with a bunch of Linuxes from the first half of the 1990s onward and even used it professionally for a time. While there are many things I like about the OS, it does have it's faults. Like not being as user friendly as Win. Like not being as snappy as Win.
I'm really sorry if I hurt somebody's precious feelings, but a troll I certianly am not. And like I said, I'm very glad this patch is coming out and will continue to run Linux as my secondary OS.
No matter how many different flavors of Linux I installed, it just never seemed as snappy as Windows. There was always a sluggishness about it, nothing I could really put my finger on, but it was definitely there and it bothered me. I'm very glad to hear that a solution is in sight.
I hope the people at Ubunto get this out as an update as soon as possible.
I think this study is totally bogus.
If you read the article more carefully, you'll notice things like 'children with such and such personality trait TENDED to exhibit this same trait as adults.' I'll bet that the paper itself waters this down even more. The reason is that clear-cut scenarios are very rare in fields such as psychology and in the sciences in general.
The problem is that journalists (or submitters to Slashdot, Reddit and so on) tend to prefer absolute statements, so what was originally a description of a tendency becomes a new law of nature.
While the visible part of the CRT is glass, it turns out the antiglare/antistatic film is far from scratch-resistant. And the scratches weren't caused by a hard object, but by the toilet paper I used to clean the screen. One would think that toilet paper is soft enough but apparently that isn't the case.
I noticed this years ago and was extremely surprised that I couldn't find practically any discussion of it on the Web even after hours of Googling. Several people recognized the memory-hungry cache as a problem, but the bottom line was that since it's a kernel design fault, there isn't anything you can do about it.
In my case XP's cache allocation algorithm was a source of incredible frustration. All the movies and music I get off the Net are shared on our home network. Whenever somebody started transferring a couple of hundred MB, my computer would virtually stop responding. Although the situation improved somewhat after a memory upgrade, big transfers still cause slowdowns.
Actually, it is. In Europe lots of people convert their cars to run on natural gas, mostly because it costs way less than gasoline. Although this usually entails a small reduction in performance, the benefits as measured in lower operating costs by far outweight the disadvantages, such as lower autonomy caused by slightly higher fuel consumption and the loss of some trunk space (which is where the extra tank goes).
I'm surprised this hasn't caught on in the US, especially with the recent increase in oil prices. Cars that run on natural gas can revert to gasoline by simply flipping a switch.