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Objectively it appears in my experience that XP is faster on my laptop with lower memory (128MB) and was actually surprised that the Sun 5 Sparc with 256MB running gnome was faster than the before mentioned laptop with just 128MB. What happened? Why are we bogged-down in this complexity and bloat? Do people not realise how much this turns-off newcomers? All the Gnome coders on their 2005-built machines don’t realise that the vast majority of the world is on older machines, and finding Gnome to be slow and weighty.Īnd as the original poster says, proposing Fluxbox or similar is crazy – why can’t we have integrated, fully-featured desktops at the same speed as Windows? In fact, considering all the talk of crappy Microsoft programming and feature-creep, why can’t we have FASTER? Bloated, buggy desktops and apps don’t help. I know there’ll be loads of posts from people with ultra-fast boxes saying how great they are, but there are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people on lower-spec boxes for whom the current Linux desktop performance is poor. They really do – I’ve seen it first hand. Linux only has a few percentage of the market, and it should provide as many incentives as possible to switch! Performance matters, and those who try Linux only to find it slower are going to be disappointed. This ‘ZealotHater’ guy is on to something. For some reason i keep going back to JFS on my installs and it does a nice job for me. Ive had great luck with JFS, as ive had very good luck with ext3, and Reiser. Not bashing any other FS in linux just putting one more on the table for you to try out. On a side note, the JFS file system is actually a nice snappy FS that is very under utilized for some strange reason. Both systems have their strenghts and weaknesses.

Hopefully you can tell i use both windows and linux. All i did was to follow the instructions in the install guide. And im not running some super uber tweaked install of gentoo. Further more Firefox under gentoo linux starts *Maybe* a hair slower than xp but not hands down eternities slower.

Now im not using any bench program to get it down to miliseconds but it feels so close to the same I can not tell any definable difference. Now under Gentoo dual booting same system KDE 3.4 Konq takes almost exactly the same time to open.

Explorer on XP with a xp3200, 1gig ram, and 300gig 16meg maxtor sata drive still takes about 1.5 seconds to open. With Ralph, Xp has never overly impressed me with its blazing speed.

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