Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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RE[3]: Windows 7 << Linux
by archiesteel on Thu 5th Nov 2009 22:26
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It's clear that you don't know what you are talking about. The video drivers take ages to load? Did you measure? For ATi and nVidia, the codebase is substantially the same between the Windows and Linux versions. It doesn't take long to load a kernel module on either system. And also, have you measured the amount of RAM used by the video drivers? Is it actually significant? Probably not. It certainly isn't on Linux.
The registry has its problems, but it is not stored or accessed like you think it is. The registry on Windows NT-based system no longer has the performance issues of the registry on 9x. It is a database and has the performance benefits associated with such. It's also not located in a single file, but rather several files (hives). Furthermore, applications don't have to use the registry and .NET applications don't use the registry at all for application settings.
I also think you misunderstand how software components are often reused. In fact, Windows has a much better system for sharing components (COM, for example), which is lacking or spotty on Linux.
I'm glad that you are seeing performance gains, because I keep seeing performance decreases on Linux. Every new release of Ubuntu is slower than the last for me. KDE4 is still not as fast as KDE3.5 was and progress is slow and spotty. Moving windows, resizing them and showing/hiding them results in trails and artifacts as the programs and X struggle to redraw in time. This rarely happens on XP (except for poorly written 3rd party apps) and certainly not on Vista or 7, which have a functional compositor.