Because none of them can provide session and mouse-gesture and fast performance and skinnable UI and mail/news reader and note keeper and image zooming and tabbed-window.
- Windows XP's Luna interface is not the most pretty one. But it is the most logically designed one. Its widgets are well defined, while special care have been taken to the way things work in a way most people expect or are accustomed to.
It's all because windos has ruled the desktop market for a long time.. There is *NOTHING* to do with the OS itself!
- Gnome is a bit faster than KDE.
The UI of gnome2.2 is obviously slower the UI of KDE3.1.. If you don't believe me, compile or run something that eats all CPU resource in the background, then resize windows under GNOME and KDE, to see how much time they take to redraw windows.
- KDE's performance on loading its apps is worse.
It doesn't matter. In KDE3, just use "kshell" to launch KDE apps. It is *far* faster than launching apps in gnome2. Because kshell just calls kdeinit to fork and load the main DSO of the app (most of KDE3 apps exist as DSOs, the executables are just wrappers).
"tar -zxf FOO.tar.gz; cd FOO;./configure; make; make install"
No mouse, no stupid dialogs, just type it within seconds and turn off the power of your monitor. When the next time you turn on your monitor, there would be a fully-optimized software for you!
It has nothing to with linux, or even x-window, but all about the GUI environment you use. Here are some tips:
1.Don't use KDE and GNOME or any apps based on them, and it's better not to use gtk2-based apps
2.For desktop environment, use any of blackbox families (such as openbox, fluxbox,...), or icewm, windowmaker.
3.Don't touch the smelly Mozilla.. In fact, you can use only opera as a www browser, unless you want to tolerate the crappy netscape 4.x, which renders worse, and has no support to anti-aliasing font...
4.Compile everything by yourself, rather than use rpm/deb/...
5.Or just use gentoo, a distro that can fully optimize for your system.
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M$ may bite, but atleast they have a lifespan.
But not for Visual Basic...
I myself often wonder if the Open Source community has either been lying or are misinformed about their flagship-product. Namely Linux.
They do not lie.... Just fail to realize the ulitimate stupidity of most computer users ("Where is the configuration area?")
Cheers!
It's pretty simple: We do not need yet another free OS.
Isn't this normal?
no, Xaw3D is better.
- can distribute 100k dynamically linked code on web (WebStart; no install needed)
But it takes forever to start
- typically only 1-2 megs RAM used for actual UI (Mac OS / shared VM)
Actually at least 20MB for the whole program, on windows
- runs on all operating systems without recompile (compile once)
Yes if you don't use JIT, which compiles every time when you run the program.
- huge class library
Where's the html browser widget??
It's far faster, and only getting faster with each release
But it's still slower than native GUIs.. And swing apps take forever to launch, and eats tons of RAM...
5) Tk provides very few widgets, compared to wxWindows and Qt.
IS TOO LONG!!
Where do you "store" your mail and attachments? Keep them on the server?
:)
... That mean password in the clear to the other accounts AND that password is stored on a third site.
I believe it's far safer...
What if you have multiple accounts?
Just open multiple tabs
I don't use password...
4)I've only got 12M of memory.
:D
5)What the hell X only holds up my xterms, and mozilla.
mozilla can't run on a box which has only 12M memory
They don't look professional like this one
Nah. People call it a spamming message because it's "unwanted". If you read it and follow it (what a moron!), then it's not spamming anymore.
Because none of them can provide session and mouse-gesture and fast performance and skinnable UI and mail/news reader and note keeper and image zooming and tabbed-window.
just make anti-aliasing and hinting built-in in X-server?
s/human/american
nothing to say.. just agreed.
- Windows XP's Luna interface is not the most pretty one. But it is the most logically designed one. Its widgets are well defined, while special care have been taken to the way things work in a way most people expect or are accustomed to.
It's all because windos has ruled the desktop market for a long time.. There is *NOTHING* to do with the OS itself!
- Gnome is a bit faster than KDE.
The UI of gnome2.2 is obviously slower the UI of KDE3.1.. If you don't believe me, compile or run something that eats all CPU resource in the background, then resize windows under GNOME and KDE, to see how much time they take to redraw windows.
- KDE's performance on loading its apps is worse.
It doesn't matter. In KDE3, just use "kshell" to launch KDE apps. It is *far* faster than launching apps in gnome2. Because kshell just calls kdeinit to fork and load the main DSO of the app (most of KDE3 apps exist as DSOs, the executables are just wrappers).
"tar -zxf FOO.tar.gz; cd FOO; ./configure; make; make install"
No mouse, no stupid dialogs, just type it within seconds and turn off the power of your monitor. When the next time you turn on your monitor, there would be a fully-optimized software for you!
It has nothing to with linux, or even x-window, but all about the GUI environment you use. Here are some tips:
...), or icewm, windowmaker.
1.Don't use KDE and GNOME or any apps based on them, and it's better not to use gtk2-based apps
2.For desktop environment, use any of blackbox families (such as openbox, fluxbox,
3.Don't touch the smelly Mozilla.. In fact, you can use only opera as a www browser, unless you want to tolerate the crappy netscape 4.x, which renders worse, and has no support to anti-aliasing font...
4.Compile everything by yourself, rather than use rpm/deb/...
5.Or just use gentoo, a distro that can fully optimize for your system.
People still use M$'s products.. Obviously most of people care about new features far more than bug-fixes.
3) Web user sees 15,000 porn sites pop up
Preferences/General/Pop-up windows => Refuse pop-up windows
Ah.. not for idiotic IE users
I heard that Solaris was faster and more scalable than Linux.
I think this depends on the platform. Maybe what you heard is not true for IA32. And the future of linux is far more bright than solaris.
Plus you are not bothered with kernel recompilations etc.
Stupid newbie... Why not just use modules?
should be "RAM Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte"