[lug] Linux for Dad

[David Morris]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>
>> Vista/New Office has very little "traction" in the corporate environment
>> right now.   Maybe later it'll be "forced" by Microsoft, and they won't
>> have a choice... but the 20-30% performance decrease of Vista on the
>> same hardware running the same applications (well documented now) isn't
>> exactly endearing it to IT managers with real-world budgets... new
>> hardware every few years isn't as likely as it was a few years ago...
>> especially as they start to get some real data on ROI.
> 20-30% performance hit?  Running what?
>
> That *has* to be in cases where the extra memory usage of Vista pushes a
> marginal program over into virtual memory or where the extra GPU virtual
> memory usage in 32-bit Vista causes virtual memory alloc problems.
> There is nothing else that would cause a hit of that magnitude.
>
> One is fixed by adding more RAM (or disabling Aero and some services)
> and the other by running 64-bit Vista, the way it was intended to be run.
>
> Just pointing this out so everyone doesn't go away believing Vista is
> *that* much of a dog.  It's quite nice.  Really.

I have no statistics to back it up, however I have *always*
gotten better performance out of Linux installed on a system
than *any* version of Windows.  Using application such as
gimp, vim, and firefox.

--David