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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I don't know what exactly is your definition of "comfortable." I have a pIII 700mhz laptop 128mb ram, XP Pro runs with acceptable speed. This laptop also has a Slackware 9.1 installed (with a 2.6.6 kernel) and it's quite a bit slower. It is still usable, just noticeably slower. Have a couple of Firefox windows open along with a konsole (or gnome terminal) and I'll see lots of disk swapping.
KDE does deserve some credit because the upgrade to 3.2 makes things a lot faster although still eats up a lot of RAM. But Firefox is getting annoying. The Windows version is acceptable but it's pretty slow on Linux.
May be you should try running XP and Linux on a low end machine first before saying people are spreading FUD just because they have a different experience.
(Btw, if your Opteron with 512mb RAM takes a minute just to flip between windows, may be you should check whether there's something wrong with your hardware or your XP installation. Even my XP PRO on my laptop can do better than that.)