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> Windows is slow? Compared to what? In what task?

I dual booted a laptop for a while with Vista. (I can't speak to anything later, because I use Linux now, and haven't looked back, so take the appropriate grain of salt.) So with Vista / Gentoo on exactly the same hardware (a Lenovo T61):

- boot time on Linux was orders of magnitude faster

- WiFi AP connect was significantly faster[1], esp. on resuming from suspend-to-RAM

- Windows had a tendency to swap things out if they weren't in use, and had to swap like crazy if you paged back to a program you hadn't used in a while; Linux, by comparison, will only swap if required to due to memory pressure.

[1] i.e., WiFi was reconnected before I could unlock the screen. No other OS I've had has been able to do this, and it's bliss.

> mostly because it's graphics stack is way the best of all.

Riiiight. The T61 had an nvidia in it, and it was fairly decent; drivers were decent between the two OSs, and performance on each was about on par with the other. (I used the proprietary drivers; nouveau performed unacceptably bad — bear in mind this was 7 years ago.)

> Running a number crunching C code is exactly the same on Windows or Linux. (See all the benchmarks on the Internet.)

This I will agree with; but what do you do after the number crunching? It's the scaffolding around the program that mattered to me: Linux has a real shell, with real tools. I can accomplish the odd task here or there. But yes, running a "number crunching C code" will perform about equally: you're really only testing the processor, maybe the memory — crucially, the hardware, not the OS.




Not only is boot faster on linux. When linux boots it's actually ready. When windows login screen comes up you login and then have to wait again.


Well, in all fairness, isn't this true of Linux too? At login, only lightdm (or whatever) is ready; we've not yet loaded the WM, mate-panel, other random stuff, etc.


> I dual booted a laptop for a while with Vista.

To be fair Vista was the slowest NT 6+ OS, especially booting is way faster on Windows 8+.


To be fair, comparing vista to anything is hugely irrelevant at this point.




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