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unforunately, not quite

I've been booting Ubuntu and Kubuntu on my machine now for 4 months, and unfortunately as much as I want to wholly switch, I'm not going to. It's too slow. Ubuntu is much faster than Kubuntu I'll admit, but it's not consistently smooth or fast. I've done mild tuning to Windows XP SP2 by turning off un-needed services, and some basic registry modifications with regedit to improve memory performance, but nothing too exotic. I'm running the latest BIOS, tuned BIOS settings, but not overclocked.

My machine:
Athlon XP 3200+
Abit NF7 S2G Nforce 2 board
2 x Corsair 1GB CAS2.5 DDR400
4 x 500GB SATA drives off Adaptec SATA2 PCI RAID card
2 x 500 GB IDE
ATI Radeon x1950 Pro 512MB
Hercules Game Theatre XP 7.1
3com 10/100/1000 PCI NIC

It's an old, but well specced machine that still holds it's own reasonably well. As I mentioned, I've been running both Kubuntu and Ubuntu now for around 4 months, and i'm disappointed to say that they both seem to feel slower than XP, especially Kubuntu. There are a few elitist Linux types at work who have suggested things, but, I'm a Test Lead and between working 50+ hours a week and fairly regularly weekends, I just don't have the time nor patience to get spend several weekends getting geeky with technology I believe should damn well be my servant.

I'd love to say your suggestion was correct, believe me, like millions of others I'm begging the universe to provide something logical, user-friendly, and fast to replace windows.

But, unfortunately, Linux isn't that replacement yet. It seriously needs some UI designers to all put aside their egos, personal differences, and hubris elitist attitudes and make something for the ordinary users out there. The working professionals like me who
a) work long hours
b) have little to no tolerance for technology which expects me to serve it, rather than be *my servant*
c) have a life outside or work, and don't quite warm to the thought of spending long hours inside learning a new OS instead of playing cricket on the beach.

Windows XP might be a bloated, virus-ridden piece of Microsoft hubris, but unfortunately, on my machine, it's faster and better on the desktop than either Kubuntu or Ubuntu.

The only option I can see which is a realistic alternative to MS is Apple. It's UI design is logical, very polished, and it's surprisingly respectful of my time as a professional by being simple, clean, and easy to use. And it's fast to boot. And given that I've been doing testing on a Mac Mini at work for 2 weeks now, and I can do more on it, faster, than either my Ubuntu or Kubuntu installs, that's a pretty sad indication of how far UI design in those distro's need to go.

Just my 2c.

Posted by: Shinsengumi   Posted on: 12/10/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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