Switching to Linux

[John G. Heim]

Well, a GUI is always going to be slower than a CUI.  But I used to have 
Windows 7 on this worstation, the one I'm typing this message on rigght 
now. And linux is approximately as fast a Windows 7. Launching 
Thunderbird and Firefox take approximately the same time.


I have a quad-core I5 with 8Gb of RAM though. That's pretty big/fast.




On 05/09/13 13:06, Rob Hudson wrote:
> My problem with gnome/orca is that it is extreeeemely slow. If there was
> a way to strip out most of the unnessential stuff in gnome, I'd probably
> use it more often. I'm talking about almost thirty seconds to launch
> firefox, as an example. Under XP on the same system, it only takes maybe
> five to ten seconds. Granted, I haven't used gnome outside of vinux and
> i haven't really played around much with default gnome as installed from
> source or package management, so maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's orca
> that's slow, I just don't know.
>
> Working in the terminal on the other hand is very snappy. I get no lag,
> and everything just responds nice and fast. I get about a fifteen second
> boot time, whereas with xorg installed it takes about forty five
> seconds. There's three gigs of memory on the box in question and I think
> a 2.0 ghz processor. So, unless i can find a way to make gnome faster i
> won't be using it.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Switching to Linux
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>
> I think today, squeeze is still debian's stable version. For squeeze,
> you need a hardware synth. For wheezy, you press the S key and it speaks
> with software speech. You can still do an install with your hardware
> synth with wheezy. I put wheezy on a server about a month ago figuring
> it would be moved to stable soon.
>
>   05/09/13 11:39, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Buddy Brannan, le Thu 09 May 2013 12:24:27 -0400, a écrit :
>>> I've been a little out of the loop for a while. Quite a while, as it
>>> happens. How does one do a talking Debian stable install these days?
>>> Serial synth required, or does speak happen somehow?
>>
>> See http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
>>
>> Samuel
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