Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st May 2008 08:05 UTC, submitted by Mohammed Saleh
Several open source applications are available on both Linux as well as Windows. This gave Mohammed Saleh the idea of comparing the performance of various of these applications on both Ubuntu 8.04 as well as Windows XP SP3, to see which of the two performed better with certain applications. The results were rather interesting.
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Noone needs superfast OS with no top-level apps. Let it be Win98 as long as I can finish my job.
In a way, I agree with this. It doesn't matter what operating system you use or how slow it is, as long as you can do your work.
In general, Linux boxes run lighter and faster and if someone is prepared to alter their work habits to work with Linux, they can get a very nice experience.
I can't imagine anyone thinking that they can get more performance out of Windows, whatever the release, than with Linux. All the optimisations in application software and Windows' bias to give more priority to the foreground application help, but when I quit an application and it takes several seconds for the icons on the desktop to be regenerated, I have to laugh.