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    New User Comparing Speeds of Windows and Ubuntu

    Firstly, all power and praise to the Ubuntu and Open Source software movement and excuse my simplistic attempts at evaluation.

    My experiences with Linux distributions is as follows:
    Trialled on PIII Celeron 400MHz, 192 MB RAM, 30GB Maxtor DiamondMax 8 PATA.

    I tried different flavours of Linux, originally installed alone, then with a basic Win XP setup (no service packs) and my preferred Ubuntu solution (the philosophy is outstanding)

    Whilst there are many excellent features of the software which makes it very attractive I found that it loads and runs far more slowly than Windows, despite my high expectations.

    Summary:
    Boot times:
    Basic XP: 45s,
    Xubuntu: 75s to login then 15s to desktop.
    Kubuntu: 105s to login then 60s to desktop

    Browser:
    XP: IE: 5s
    Xubuntu: Firefox: 13s
    Kubuntu: Konqueror: 18s

    Office:
    XP: Wordpad: 3s
    Xubuntu: AbiWord: 12s
    Kubuntu: AbiWord: 25s, OpenOffice.org, Writer: 105s


    The key finding is that, in the setup I tried, the systems seem to load and run MUCH more slowly. This was very unexpected and disappointing.

    I await pricing of Windows Vista and bundled prices with, say Dell hardware to be able to compare this against, possibly a faster machine to compensate for my findings of a slower running Open Source solution.


    Linux is almost there in terms of ease of installation, quality, hardware detection and simplicity but the speed issue will put anyone off?

    Am I missing something (WITHOUT going into any highly arcane, technical solutions!)

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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    When you compared the two were you using the live Cd or did you install ubuntu on the hard drive?
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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    your CPU is slow - with only 400Mhz...
    you are right about ubuntu's boot loading time
    it is slower the winxp
    but after you login - it is very fast , at least for me
    you should upgrade your computer.
    for now you better run xubuntu - as it is for a slower machines.

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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    You must be joking, i'm running Ubuntu 6.06 on a Pentium M laptop, along with XP and Ubuntu is so much quicker,it takes about 30 secs to boot, XP takes a few minutes!
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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    Quote Originally Posted by frrobert View Post
    When you compared the two were you using the live Cd or did you install ubuntu on the hard drive?
    good point
    almost forgot about it
    you can not compare the time using live cd
    install xubuntu on your PC - then compare

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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    Quote Originally Posted by frrobert View Post
    When you compared the two were you using the live Cd or did you install ubuntu on the hard drive?
    Loaded to Hard drive for "fair" comparison.


    Previous comments acknowledged and Xubuntu was my preference as it DOES run faster but still poor compared to Windows in my test?

    I dislike having to keep upgrading hardware (on environmental grounds) and if a Linux distribution did the same job on a less powerful machine, that would be a MASSIVE advantage, it just seems that it doesn't?

    Not criticising as I really WANTED it to work, I will probably be back later (getting near retirement so cost of computer use will become more important)

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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    Quote Originally Posted by slibuntu View Post
    You must be joking, i'm running Ubuntu 6.06 on a Pentium M laptop, along with XP and Ubuntu is so much quicker,it takes about 30 secs to boot, XP takes a few minutes!

    Firstly, don't know what Pentium M is in comparison to my test system. Ubuntu at 30s would be GREAT.

    We seem to have a reversal of times almost?

    As I say, I am searching for comparative info and ideas as I really want it to work!

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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    Well my system is 1.6 ghz, 120 gig hard drive, 40 gig hard drive, and 256 meg ram....and my Ubuntu boots up wayyyyyyyy faster than my XP....Which it could be because I have so much crap I have to run with XP, like spyware detection, firewalls, and anti-virus...Which I run a firewall with Ubuntu too.

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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    I think thats my reason aswell,all the services and stuff XP loads on startup slow it way way down
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    Re: New User Comparing Windows & Ubuntu

    Not sure, but I think gedit is more of an equivalent to wordpad than OO Writer.

    Firefox does start slower. Perhaps try Firefox on both Windows and Ubuntu.
    Or try Opera. I've heard Konqueror is not simply a web browser also.

    In my experience, the Windows start up is quicker. Even on my 2.93GHz PIV, 256MB(if that makes a difference)

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