mostly because you are not comparing them in the right light.. real linux has no GUI and doesnt' need one.. all of linux's work is on the console..
the GUI is eye candy for people that don't know or like the console.. Also, most people don't know exactly whats running on a linux machine.. there are tons of processes that you can kill which will speed things up.. remember that postfix is a full mail server, and there are a ton of others... Mostly though, because the GUI is optional, its an addon application, ,so it won't be as fast.. windows gui is integrated with the OS.. (it is the OS..) so it is much more "in touch" with the onderlying hardware. The other reason I imagine is that most of the window managers are "works in progress" and the code changes alot.. once they get a good code base, things will improve no end.. but, I run 8.2 on a 233mmx with 160mb ram and I run win2000 (and now XP) on a PII 366, (with 280mb ram) and the linux box seems to hold its own very well against the higher powered PII machine. It could be that you need to look into optimising your linux box for performance.. start with hdparm and your hard disks,, and check "top" to see whats chewing your ram and CPU.. and decide if you need it. regards Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan W. Dooley Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2002 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs Can someone explain to me why Linux under KDE or Gnome would run so much slower than Windows on the same machine? An older HP Vectra with a 200 MHz Pent.; 80 meg RAM; two harddrives; integrated video. This machine has had Windows 2000 Server, NT Server 4, Linux 8.2, and currently NT and 8.2 on it. The difference in operation (speed wise) between the two MS systems (not trying to praise MS here) and Linux is like night and day. Linux is excruciatingly slow. From the time I click on an icon to do anything, that can be running Control Center, or any of the installed apps off of the Linux CD until the app is up on screen is several times longer than a comparable app (Explorer or Control Panel, for example) under Windows. Oh yes, previous installs with 8.1, on this machine and 8.1 plus Red Hat on another and much faster machine produced the same comparisons. Ideas? Dan W. Dooley WB5TKA Bedford, Texas e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address: http://www.qsl.net/wb9tka May Goddes love blest ye alle
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