If you had two computers with the same hardware (motherboard,cpu,ram,hard drive,etc) and put windows 7 on one and Ubuntu on the other. Which one would be faster?
ok thanks it just seems like its slow i guess its just cause im running it on a sh*ty computer with the old style pentium 4 processer and 512Mb of RAM and a 12Gb Hard drive i found laying around!! LOL
You'd be amazed at how heavy Ubuntu is. I wouldn't be so quick to judge it as the faster OS. It also depends on how you choose to run it - i.e. what purpose for the given OS.
You'd be amazed at how heavy Ubuntu is. I wouldn't be so quick to judge it as the faster OS. It also depends on how you choose to run it - i.e. what purpose for the given OS.
Look at the date on that article. Two years old. I could find no mass market examples of this supposed "pisses all around" People are still clinging to old beliefs when it comes to this kind of thing.
Linux is NOT the lightweight it used to be. This is true of any OS that is trying to appeal to the masses. You have to give up speed for the usability that everyone wants. Finding a balance is what they aim to do however, and while I agree that Ubuntu CAN be faster in some regards, it's not faster overall than Windows, especially Windows 7.
Here are two examples, and they share the same viewpoints:
You go right on believing that. That's what Apple users used to say about their OS of choice. The bottom line is that viruses and malware are targeted at the products that are used more than the others. Ubuntu/Mac would need scanners too if they were as popular and as widespread as Windows.