Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:34:20 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time |
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On 1/10/06, Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net> wrote: > ... > > > Hell kfm is probably a hell of a lot more bloated than Nautilus and > > > it's pretty fast to start first time (1-2s), and cached it's pretty > > > much instantaneous (I'd say less than 400ms). Fast enough, no? > > > > > > > I don't think it's a broken configuration, just a slow machine (600MHz > > VIA C3). Windows XP screams compared to Linux on this thing. > > > > Guys... Apples and oranges and stuff. > > My mother is running KDE on Linux now because (among other things) > windows explorer was unbearably slow for displaying folders with image > thumbnails (very large images and lots of them). > > Changing from an older 433MHz Celeron with too little memory to a 2.6 > GHz P4 with a gig of memory was not enough. We tried quite a few things, > but I ended up giving KDE on Linux (Debian, not that it matters) a try. > > I don't know Nautilus and I don't care - but I can say that there are > definitely situations in which KDE on Linux seriously and thoroughly > kicks MS butt both when it comes to simple usability and availability of > "good" software, and not least when it comes to the part of usability we > call "performance". Getting the job done in time - and if something > takes a while to process, being able to do it in the background and > letting the user use the computer meanwhile. > > This is not a kernel thing. There is proper desktop software out there - > go use it already :) > > My 0.02 Euro, for what it's worth, > I have been using an 800MHz VIA C3 based box (256MB RAM) at work a while back, running Slackware Linux 10.2 with XFCE as the desktop and it's very usable - quite snappy infact. Even KDE runs resonably well on that box once you turn off some of the eyecandy. I have no idea how the box would run Win XP, but it's certainly quite fine as a Linux workstation IMHO.
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