Re: [Sheflug] Re: Computer Shop Advice

[Darrell Blake <darrell [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> then it's bound to be slower

I didn't say it wouldn't be slower. It is bound to be slower based on the fact 
that windows has numerous window effects. But if a 500MHz machine could run 
like a 2.5GHz everyone would be doing it. For example, Neverwinter Nights 
runs native on Linux as it does in windows. In windows it's recommended that 
you have an 800MHz machine. Does that mean I can run it in linux with a 
200MHz machine? Even if I launch X without any window manager and run NWN I 
still don't think I could get it running on a 200MHz system.

> Benchmarking is incredibly difficult to do reliably, but just because
> Windows (of late anyway) is tightly integrated into a GUI, doesn't mean
> that Linux also has to use a GUI to run it's task in it's way...

That's what I was arguing. To get a reliable benchmark test you would have to 
get KDE and Windows to do the same task and test the performance. Another 
example is the PPC. The Power Mac G4s (havn't used G5s) at 1GHz run a lot 
faster than a 1GHz x86. But that's based entirely on the processor and 
hardward it runs on. MacOS has a lot more effects than windows and still runs 
programs faster.

Darrell

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