Not to turn it into a WM flamewar, but are you using KDE or GNOME? Either fullblown environment can make the experience a lot slower in my experience.
It's also possible and fun to throw Linux's performance down the stairs in ways that Windows simply won't do, such as pixmapped themes and running graphic programs in the root-window. Go easy on the eye-candy, get faster response. Last but not least, there are definitely issues with XFree86 that won't be going away. For one thing, X is a user space program and the Win32 GDI is kernel space, ring 0, ever since NT 4.0. This is changing with DRI, but at the same cost of decreased stability which plagues NT video. Also, X's video card support tends to be a bit flaky in my experience, which is to say it's a crap-shoot if running a 3d program is going to produce software rendering, hardware rendering, static across the top 3rd of my screen, or a video card lockup (all of these have happened this week with a Voodoo3 and an i815). I don't think that XFree86 gets the same sort of attention that Windows drivers get, since driver debugging that goes past the point of "it works on the primary developer's machine" is not very fun. dos centavos, Jack On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 21:36, flacycads wrote: > OK- you're correct- I don't speak for everyone, and my choice of words was > unfortunate. Please accept my apology. > > However, my experience on several dual boot boxes with different versions of > windows and Linux has always been that overall computer performance is > significantly better when booted to windows. I'm sorry, but that's what > happens- there's no question about it. Of course I do have any windows > installation I run highly tweaked and tuned to perfection( as good as is > possible), and perhaps I can tweak my Linux installs a little more than I > presently have. > > Robert Crawford > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:26 pm, et wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:01 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: > > > -------Original Message------- > > > From: flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: 02/25/03 05:10 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control? > > > > > > <snip> > > > Anyone who dual boots with windows on the same hardware knows that > > > windows > ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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