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Re: Windows Tends to Freeze, GNU/Linux is a Breeze

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____/ 7 on Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 12:11 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Hope and Change Inside My Computer - Part III
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>> | I mentioned that my computer does not freeze.  It darn well shouldn't.
>> | It
>> | has a 64 bit dual core quad processor with 4 gigs of RAM.  Windows 7
>> | infuriated me just as much as Windows XP did with its intermittent
>> | stalls
>> | for no obvious reason.  To be fair, a few Linux distros had momentary
>> | freezes with a slight darkening of the screen but after a bit of
>> | research,
>> | I turned Compiz off and it stopped doing it.  Personally, I don't see
>> | the point as I didn't find it useful, just wobbly and shiny.
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>> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/07/hope-and-change-inside-my-computer-part.html
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> 
> 
> Once you start to use 16 sided translucent cube and you are forced to work the
> computer by opening dozens of applications by rotating the cube (by setting it
> to rotate on scrolling the mouse wheel on an empty patch of screen)
> then you are hooked for good.
> 
> You can NEVER give up compiz after that.
> 
> Productivity goes through the roof as you wiz across dozens of applications
> and bits of information by rotating the cube to cut and paste to complete your
> projects.
> 
> Thats when you notice the saddest part of computers and their hopeless UI
> designs. Its usability fall on its knees.
> Problem is simple enough to describe - there is cut and paste, but there is no
> cut paste and automatically reconnect.
> 
> So if you took circuits from one electronics board and pasted to another,
> application or even the same application, the named wires do not reconnect.
> 
> Same with all cad packages.
> 
> It wastes endless hours.
> Design a kitchen, move kitchen to another floor, will the hot
> water pipes reconnect to hot water taps? Nope.
> 
> I spend most of the working day reconnecting cut and pasted information.

KWin effects make the desktop even more responsive and are increasing productivity in many
ways.

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		~~ Best of wishes

Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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