Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Joel Rees wrote:
> 2006-02-14 (火) の 14:05 -0600 に Mike McCarty さんは書きました:
> 
>>As far as starting a new window or app, Linux is noticeably
>>slower than WinXP on my machine.
> 
> 
> Uhm, Linux is doing a lot more in the background than your WinXP
> machine?

CPU normally shows 1-2% with top, unless I'm actually doin
something with the screen or running a non-interactive program.

> Fifteen, twenty years ago, people used to complain about how slow Macs
> were compared to DOS boxes. I guess people didn't understand that an
> environment in which a mouse could be accurately tracked requires

Requires interrupt processing, not constant CPU drain.

[snip]

> I really think it must be the full moon out tonight.

Must be full moon out every night here. :-)

You an old Hack (now NetHack) player?

Mike
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