Well, a GUI is always going to be slower than a CUI. But I used to have Windows 7 on this worstation, the one I'm typing this message on rigght now. And linux is approximately as fast a Windows 7. Launching Thunderbird and Firefox take approximately the same time. I have a quad-core I5 with 8Gb of RAM though. That's pretty big/fast. On 05/09/13 13:06, Rob Hudson wrote: > My problem with gnome/orca is that it is extreeeemely slow. If there was > a way to strip out most of the unnessential stuff in gnome, I'd probably > use it more often. I'm talking about almost thirty seconds to launch > firefox, as an example. Under XP on the same system, it only takes maybe > five to ten seconds. Granted, I haven't used gnome outside of vinux and > i haven't really played around much with default gnome as installed from > source or package management, so maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's orca > that's slow, I just don't know. > > Working in the terminal on the other hand is very snappy. I get no lag, > and everything just responds nice and fast. I get about a fifteen second > boot time, whereas with xorg installed it takes about forty five > seconds. There's three gigs of memory on the box in question and I think > a 2.0 ghz processor. So, unless i can find a way to make gnome faster i > won't be using it. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at linux-speakup.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:04 PM > Subject: Re: Switching to Linux > > > I think today, squeeze is still debian's stable version. For squeeze, > you need a hardware synth. For wheezy, you press the S key and it speaks > with software speech. You can still do an install with your hardware > synth with wheezy. I put wheezy on a server about a month ago figuring > it would be moved to stable soon. > > 05/09/13 11:39, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Buddy Brannan, le Thu 09 May 2013 12:24:27 -0400, a ?crit : >>> I've been a little out of the loop for a while. Quite a while, as it >>> happens. How does one do a talking Debian stable install these days? >>> Serial synth required, or does speak happen somehow? >> >> See http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility >> >> Samuel >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
