Linked by Guillaume Maillard on Thu 10th Oct 2002 05:44 UTC
Being a BeOS user (a purely desktop system) and because I code under Linux, I see XFree86 (v4.1 on my machine) as a user and as a developper. And this is where the problem lies. My Gnome or KDE desktops are slow in comparison with other operating systems, but XFree86, the 'engine' behind these desktops, proves me that it's not. Let's look at what I have in front of me: a dual Pentium III at 933Mhz with 512MB of memory, a Radeon 32 AIW, a modified Mandrake 8.0 powered by kernel 2.4.18.
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Bascule, the problem (and i understand, cuz your a windows basher!), is that windows xp can use very generic drivers for nvidias and ati's cards, you can even have bigger resolutions and screens with those drivers (Wich was not possible in previous versions of windows), and all looks like windows detected the right hardware, but make a little research in hardware manager, and you'll find that it's then wrong driver for your card.
It happens a lot, people think that windows has detected and installed the good video driver by default, but it did not.
Update drivers, that's all, and stop making a foul of you.