- In Windows, when the desktop appears, may be some startup items still running; In SuSE 9.1 you see similar situation, at least for "kmix" and "hardware" icons in the system tray! also, a message asking you about changing your monitor settings cannot be eliminated. - With all your explanation, can SuSE 9.1 be 6 times slower than WinXP? (See the table again.) - We start a criticism with the vision that it will be supported by some other members and may be considered in future versions; Once I feel that its users are already satisfied with it, I'll keep my opinion for myself and leave the story to its destiny! In return to your request, I require you ignore the thread if you are so intolerant. Thank you for your notice, Bahram. -------------------------------- "BandiPat" wrote: -------------------------------- Bahram, I'll just make a few comments about this and ask that you move it to the OT list please. Not really solving SuSE problems talking about things you don't seem to understand. Of if you do understand them better, you are just trolling to create a stir. Either way, move this to OT please. First of all, you are not comparing apples to apples and maybe if you understood what you were talking about more, you could do so or if you do, but decided not to point out the facts, you are trying to be deceptive as well. It's certainly another of those deceptive practices MS does to draw folks in or create useless discussions such as this. :o) 1. Windows, no matter what flavor, preloads most of what it needs to run at bootup into ram, therefore appearing to load things faster. Windows bootup time in itself is decieving, since it is programed to load the windows first then process the init stuff later. That's why even after you see the desktop, it's not ready to use for several seconds later. If you were to compare "actual" times, you would see Windows doesn't fully load for several seconds, even minutes before becoming fully usable. Same thing with other programs, Windows loads the windows first, the rest later thus because the windows open first, you get the "feeling" they're loading faster. The actual load times, I think you would find to be comparable to or slower to a good Linux setup. 2. Knoppix feels faster simply because of the fact it's running from a ram disk when started. Try loading something from the cd that's not loaded into ram and tell us what times you get. I suspect you'll find load times to be different from a cd. 3. KDE does things differently, actually not only KDE, in that it loads all the processes first then the window appears. This, of course, makes it appear slower in loading when it's actually equal to or faster than what you see in Windows. Of course, when you see the window appear in Linux apps they are ready for use! This is how KDE operates, no matter what distro it sets on, so MDK, Slackware, Debian are all going to "feel" about the same. Try it yourself by checking the performance settings on Konqueror. Set it to preload just one process into memory! It loads almost instantaneous for me and it's ready to use right then! Unlike Windows, where even preloaded it still has to start other things well after the window appears to be ready to use. Lee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
