Three Operating Systems in Three Days Date: 2007-09-03 09:37:52
I've had the questionable honor of working with Linux/KDE/beryl, Mac OS X and Vista in the last days, all side by side. Well:
Linux/KDE/Beryl
Installed a SuSE desktop, it wasn't so bad really. Only why does beryl/compiz/Xgl take up something in excess of 400 MB RAM even before the first window was opened? And does it really have to be that slow? It shouldnt be slow on a 3GHz, 1GB, 8x AGB machine, now, should it? Otherwise, since I didn't have a multiscreen setup this time, installation went without a hitch. Kudos!
Mac OS X
That I had to run on my old G4 iBook with 256 megs of RAM, so nobody can expect any kind of decent performance from that. But still, even with the memory shortage problem, it was the most fun OS to work with, since I could finally stop fighting with my computer and start doing what I came to do!
Windows Vista
A brand-new dual core Dell machine, it took somewhere in excess of 10 minutes to even boot up the thing at the first start. While it just sits there and does who-knows-what (possibly searching the network neighborhood for Al Qaeida files or something) you get billboard banners that state things like "your time matters to us" and "Vista will save you lots of time". Well, it really doesn't. Even in idle mode, just running the OS consumes 65% CPU time, that's more than one of those nice Intel cores doing nothing but OS handholding. Really liked the eye candy, though. If it wasn't Aero-capable I'd switch back to XP. But I still might do that anyway, if it turns out that the second graphics card I ordered doesn't work in conjunction with the existing one (thereby making the multiscreen setup thing even more painful than the worst Linux distro). Oh yeah, and don't get me started on those freakishly stupid security warnings that are system modal, pop up every 30 seconds, and always state that the source of a downloaded application is trustworthy even though it sometimes clearly is not.
Linux/KDE/Beryl
Installed a SuSE desktop, it wasn't so bad really. Only why does beryl/compiz/Xgl take up something in excess of 400 MB RAM even before the first window was opened? And does it really have to be that slow? It shouldnt be slow on a 3GHz, 1GB, 8x AGB machine, now, should it? Otherwise, since I didn't have a multiscreen setup this time, installation went without a hitch. Kudos!
Mac OS X
That I had to run on my old G4 iBook with 256 megs of RAM, so nobody can expect any kind of decent performance from that. But still, even with the memory shortage problem, it was the most fun OS to work with, since I could finally stop fighting with my computer and start doing what I came to do!
Windows Vista
A brand-new dual core Dell machine, it took somewhere in excess of 10 minutes to even boot up the thing at the first start. While it just sits there and does who-knows-what (possibly searching the network neighborhood for Al Qaeida files or something) you get billboard banners that state things like "your time matters to us" and "Vista will save you lots of time". Well, it really doesn't. Even in idle mode, just running the OS consumes 65% CPU time, that's more than one of those nice Intel cores doing nothing but OS handholding. Really liked the eye candy, though. If it wasn't Aero-capable I'd switch back to XP. But I still might do that anyway, if it turns out that the second graphics card I ordered doesn't work in conjunction with the existing one (thereby making the multiscreen setup thing even more painful than the worst Linux distro). Oh yeah, and don't get me started on those freakishly stupid security warnings that are system modal, pop up every 30 seconds, and always state that the source of a downloaded application is trustworthy even though it sometimes clearly is not.
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