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>>> > On Jul 5, 6:26 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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>>> > "[M]y computer does not freeze" followed by "[t]o be fair, a few Linux
>>> > distros had momentary freezes." Here's a thought: Computers, being
>>> > imperfect machines created by man, may freeze occasionally regardless
>>> > of OS. I do not see how Windows tends to freeze any more than Linux
>>> > does. I've had OS X freeze on me before too. I would say in all cases
>>> > it's fairly rare nowadays.
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>>> Big Lock goes about 4 years back. It's no longer even remotely an issue.
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>> Is freezing an issue on any OS?
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> It sure is. Open 3 or more decent apps simultaneously in windopws netbooks
> and you got a problem. Salesmen in particular groan and groan
> day in day out about this. Not so with Linux netbooks with 1Gb RAM.
> I got compiz and translucent cube.
> I can open around 30 decent applications before something gives.
> Most of the time, the issues are limited to web browsers because they
> are mega resource hungry apps if they got lots of images, scripts,
> flash and some didly to deal with.
Then Linux desktop is very snappy. Maybe Windows fixed its own scheduler by now.
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