Have you ever wondered how much memory does Windows Vista need to use Firefox 3? And how much does Linux?, in this case opensuse 11. Windows Vista with Aero enabled (and of course another few background programs that anyone normally use) just after rebooting. opensuse 11 running with KDE 4 and with Compiz Fusion enabled and other programs like cairodock and emesene. Hardware: Dell XPS m1530 Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6Ghz, 3gb Ram, NVIDIA8600 GT Music: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Cold Wind
Windows Vista vs OpenSUSE 11
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
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March 10th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I personally prefer Gentoo. Excellent distro. I used to use OpenSUSE but I had an issue when installing Python 2. 6 and Python 3. 11 in parallel. Gentoo’s Portage allows a huge amount of flexibility, and I love the rolling releases.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Can anyone tell if he has tried You Tube full screen videos in Linux with an Nvidia 8800? They say this card is running good. (I remind you not to install Flash 10. Everything goes mute. I went back to Flash 9).
March 10th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Try Opera in Linux. It’s far better than Firefox. There is Google Chrome now in Linux too. Opera is just excellent.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
but this is due to video card drivers. I have an older model of GeForce 6800. It’s a strong video card, the screen analysis I have is 1680 x 1050, and KDE by itself is very fast. Flash content use much CPU (like in windows). Don’t install Flash 10. You won’t have sound. Install Flash 9 instead. It’s enough fast.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Try Open SUSE 11. 1 it’s very improved, it’s very good on plug n play, if you have some older PC or laptop model it recognises everything. I have it installed on an Asus deluxe with a P4 at 3 GHz, 3 Gb of memory it just recognised every device and connected to the net immediately (via ethernet port). It’s very fast in this machine. You can have many browser windows open, the connections are fast because the TCP-IP stack in Linux is better. It’s not as fast at full screen flash videos (You Tube)
March 10th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Open Suse THE BEST but it is very SLOW,but theres no virus
March 10th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
opensuse by far!
March 10th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
. . . . sounds like your computer is slow becuase of hardware I have Vista, and my laptop overheats alot but in Linux Mint 8 its barely even warming up. . . still in Vista things run fast. I have AMD Turion x2 processor, 4GB ram, 128MB shared NVIDIA.
Everything is fast for me in both Linux Mint and Vista. . . Opensuse is probably faster for u becuase it uses less resources and has lower requirments than Vista/Win7 does. . . Vista is a resource hog but with my system it runs fine and linux runs COOLER.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
@Wolferine95 it’s slow because you prolly have a shitty computer.
March 10th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
you’re damn right, tomorrow i’m gonna install opensuse
March 10th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
OpenSuse Is TEh Best xD
I Used To HAve Windows 7 But Its So Fvuckn Sllow
And I swereed i won’t Use It Agian
Lmaooooooooooooo
March 10th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
welln witch os is he using as a host linux of windows?
March 10th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
i hope to jesus christ you are joking about your whole comment :
March 10th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
how did you switch from windows to linux so fast?
say if i was to insall leopard on my PC could i use the same program?
March 10th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
let the noobs dumbasses play around with their toys called windows seven and windows vista. The Linux boxes rocks, evar! so powerful, so light, so safe and so beautiful
what more u want?
March 10th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
linux is the bomb and is better than windows 7 also
March 10th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
stop asking to be fooled. . microsoft efficiently fools you with fancy desktop gadgets sayin’ how much RAM they’d like their OS to be spenting. .
Say. . can YOUR 32-bit Vista manage more than 3GB??
March 10th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
yes and people should reallise that there are a whole freaking lot of programs that doesn’t need compiling or the terminal
March 10th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
lol xD
March 10th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
insuf iq
March 10th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
If you’re like me and have been involved with computers for the last 30+ years Linux will come naturally.
The people who have a difficult time understanding Windows won’t be doing much better in Linux.
I believe that people have a difficult time making the switch because they’re either dependant or familiar with their current applications. Many don’t know there is a Linux equivalent available. Why spend $350 for MS Office when Open Office is free?
March 10th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
First you had plenty of programs running in memory on the Windows machine, I could see them on the taskbar. . .
Second Windows Vista caches memory so it can be used efficiently, it releases it when necessary & unused memory is wasted memory so you could say Suse with 1gb+ of memory is a waste.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:02 am
i use linux – but this just simply a lie. Firefox on linux is resource hog – it works milion times worse than on Vista. It doesnt mother how much ram it showing to use.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:27 am
vista dozznt use all ram u retard, it manages it efficiently. u wanna know how much ram is being used, start the cpu ram gadget.
March 11th, 2010 at 1:06 am
what programs did u use?