[lug] Linux for Dad

[Nate Duehr]

Zan Lynx wrote:

> 20-30% performance hit?  Running what?

There are a number of benchmarks that run "common" applications, like 
Office -- that are reportedly running on the EXACT same hardware, but 
swapping XP for Vista, run 20% slower.

Seriously... It's been documented by the various mainstream PC "news" 
sources for a while now.  Places like ExtremePC, PC Mag, etc... the guys 
that just love all those benchmark programs and do that stuff all the 
time.  I think Lloyd Case did an article on it, but it's been a number 
of weeks since I read it, and can't remember where I saw the first one 
-- I did some Googling on it after seeing the first article, thinking: 
Nahh... that guy just botched his numbers... and found more of them.

(I'll admit, I haven't done any tests like that myself, just reading 
what they're publishing.)

Nate