[clue-talk] Why X? [long, with provocative questions]

[Angelo Bertolli]

> Well, I was making an implicit comparison with Windows. According to 
> what I hear--borne out by the little experience I have had with 
> Windows lately--is that the Evil Competing System is significantly 
> faster in doing anything with video. And of course, GNOME and KDE are 
> the most nearly Windows-like in terms of functionality and eye candy. 
> The others achieve better performance with fewer features. And I have 
> the distinct impression that for any given feature set the Windows 
> approach performs better. 


Maybe on things with certain hardware.  But I can testify to trying to 
install XP on a machine that was supposed to have 2000 on it, and it 
turned out to be NOTICABLY slower.  All you have to do is look at the 
"requirements" on a Windows pacakge:  they usually double with each version.

Angelo