Convince me that Yellowdog is the Linux for me!

[Kimball Larsen]

Yes, comparing apples to apples would be a good thing for me to do:
When I speak of responsiveness, I particularly  mean the following:

Menu speed
Window dragging
Application Launch
3D anything (open GL etc.)


With KDE, all of the above are much faster than with OS X.  Perhaps on
my particular hardware there is a greater difference between the two
because OS X does not support Open GL at all for my video card. 
Consequently, playing Quicktime movies, (or really any media at all) and
interacting with the gui widgets was very very sluggish in OS X.  KDE
under 2.2 is lightning quick in comparison.

-Kimball



On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 13:00, aaron wrote:
> Correction:
> >>YDLinux 2.1 does feel more responsive on my Mac at home than OS X does.
> should be:
> >>YDLinux 2.1 does NOT feel more responsive on my Mac at home than OS X does.
> 
> > Thats wierd - mine does everything instantaneously and I mean instantly -
> > how much ram do you have ?
> 
>  768 MB
> 
> >Hmm...I have just installed YDL 2.2 on the machine mentioned below, and
> >it provides a MUCH faster gui than OS X ever did.  I am currently using
> >KDE 2.2.2, but plan to investigate either Gnome or KDE 3.0 in the near
> >future to decide which wm I like best...
> 
> I use YD 2.1 with KDE.  The "finder" app (Konqueror) IS slower than the OS X 
> Finder.  We have to compare apples to apples.  Of course using the CLI to 
> traverse the file system (which I do because Konqueror is so slow) in Linux 
> is faster than the OS X Finder, but that's not much of a comparison.  I have 
> found that the "Finder" in Gnome is very fast, though, probably faster than 
> OS X's.
> 
> >It's strange that your 1.7 Gig pentium is more sluggish with KDE than
> >your OS X box....I believe that most people would describe very opposite
> >experiences.
> 
> I use both systems every day, as I said above similar apps seem faster on OS 
> X (File Manager to File Manager, for example).  Star Office takes longer to 
> start than MSOffice v. X, and Mozilla is a lot more sluggish on my Linux 
> machine than in OS X.
> 
> Maybe we are talking about a different kind of responsiveness, e.g. I do 
> think that menus are brisker in Linux than in OS X, but I don't usually 
> notice it much because the difference in time doesn't have me waiting.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:56 pm, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 April 2002 10:55 am, aaron wrote:
> > > I use there to be considerably more sluggish that OS X is on my Mac (G4
> > > DP 500 Mhz).  I don't think running a comtemporary  Linux of any sort is
> > > going to give you a more responsive GUI on a G3 333 than OS X does (YD
> > > Linux 2.1 does feel more responsive on my Mac at home than OS X does).
> >
> > Thats wierd - mine does everything instantaneously and I mean instantly -
> > how much ram do you have ?
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