[SOLVED]windoze like user experience (but linux can be fixed!)

[lmilano]

Re: [SOLVED]windoze like user experience (but linux can be fixed!)

Ha, you can use the phoronix test suite, it produces the plots for you and posts them on the web for free, plus it allows to add a new set of plots every easily. Something along these lines:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...nchmarks&num=1

Cheers!

[GreyGeek]

Re: windoze like user experience

....
for now, i will flag this thread as solved...

Great job! 8)

When some seem to just throw up their hands and start a whine/rant it is refreshing to see you dig in and solve your problem In doing so you will help others who may have a similar problem.

[lmilano]

Re: [SOLVED]windoze like user experience (but linux can be fixed!)

Yes, the beauty of Free(dom) software. No one is hiding your computer from you, you can always make it better. Which is why you just can't compare Linux with Windows.

[jankushka]

Re: [SOLVED]windoze like user experience (but linux can be fixed!)

still investigating...

i waited a few days after the release of 9.10 final and updated both old and new installations to the latest packages versions.

as a reminder...
the old system was installed at alpha1 and updated all along to the final release.
the new one was installed based on ubuntu-server, to which kde-minimal and all the rest was added.

i now have similar kdm to full desktop timings (around 29 seconds).

in some circumstances, though, the old installation takes 40 seconds.
while the new consistently takes around 30 seconds.

the main differences are:
old: has apport, packagekit, acpi-support and acpid, alsa-base and alsa-utils
new: doesn't have the above, but has gstreamer stuff, that the old hasn't

will continue to investigate time permitting...