Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Jun 2006 13:01 UTC
I enjoy using many different desktop environments and operating systems. On a day-to-day basis, I use Finder, Explorer, GNOME, and KDE. They all have their good sides, but obviously, they have their fair share of bad sides as well. The next couple of columns will be about the latter. This week, I take a look at whatever bothers me about Ubuntu's GNOME/Linux combination (Dapper, obviously).
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2005-08-12
"as for gnome's redraw speed - it's truely a disgrace. try with a xinerama set up and drag one window from one desktop to another, and you'll see how bad things can be. i don't think this will ever be fixed, they'll just implement an open gl x server to get around it, rather than fix the gtk slowness."
Haha, you mean like what OS X did with 10.2 !
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As far Ubuntu's slow boot time -- go smoke a cigar.
It has less to do with Linux itself but rather Ubuntu.
If you want a fair comparison go waste a couple of hours installing Gentoo and then boot from that.
Since you're compiling everything you have vs everything you could have you'll get an Apple effect. The same goes for services.
Ubuntu is marginally slower than Windows XP to boot, but it's nothing painful. For me at least. Maybe a minute.
Edited 2006-06-04 19:08