Linked by Bob Marr on Thu 10th Jun 2004 05:48 UTC
Consider these memory requirements for Fedora Core 2, as specified by Red Hat: Minimum for graphical: 192MB and Recommended for graphical: 256MB Does that sound any alarm bells with you? 192MB minimum? I've been running Linux for five years (and am a huge supporter), and have plenty of experience with Windows, Mac OS X and others. And those numbers are shocking -- severely so. No other general-purpose OS in existence has such high requirements. Linux is getting very fat.
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...which is almost my specs for my dual-boot system you start noticing how much slower Gnome 2.6 is than XP Pro.
When I first got this sytem back in January I was sitting in linux most of the time just for the mere fact that just to get everything up and running on gentoo, including wireless, and both desktop just the way you want it is a part-time week in itself. I thought Gnome looked good. The fonts were alright after I spent some time tweaking.
Well, for the past month and a half or so I've been in my XP Pro partition mostly working in Eclipse. Once I enabled ClearType things looked about a 1000% better in windows and eclipse just tends to run better in windows, plus with Firebird what the hell.
The other night I decided to play this very old BladeRunner DVD that windows media player just doesn't handle for whatever reason, but I knew that a program I had for gentoo would handle.
Well, I hadn't been in linux for quite a while and man I just didn't like what I saw. The fonts just look like crap compared to me be using to cleartype and Gnome 2.6 (even on a P4-3.2 ghz, 1 gig of ram, and a ATI 9600 Pro card) just seemed sluggish compared to windows.
Yeah, yeah, I know I can run fluxbox or whatever, but why should I. With a firewall, a router, Firefox I'm not getting viruses. I know how to keep my system clean so why should I even mess with Linux.