Linux users want better desktop performance (Screw data. Prioritize code)

[phil]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenessland-why-linux-feels-slow-and-how-to-fix-that 
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>> What is you comment?
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> I will have to try this at home.  My home system is crawling and it 
> could be related to some of these settings.  I would like to see other 
> fine tuning settings.
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> I cannot afford a new machine at this time.
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acer use these settings as default on the aspire one in linpus (which is 
based on fedora 8), though i think this was aimed more for the ssd 
versions to increase the ssd lifetime more than speed up the user experience