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Because X is client-server based, it actually performs much worse than Windows 95. That might be one of the issues he would have with using Linux. It's very hig
by jncraton 18y ago
Because X is client-server based, it actually performs much worse than Windows 95. That might be one of the issues he would have with using Linux. It's very high performance as a server platform, but it does a little worse as a consumer OS.
- jrockway 18y agoAn article about Windows 95, and a comment spewing FUD from the Windows 95 era. How appropriate. Anyway, I doubt any overhead of the X protocol is visible on a modern machine. With two cores, the client and server can both run at the same time, and server operations are so fast you wouldn't notice anyway. I certainly don't notice any delay, although I do see that X has used 495 minutes of CPU time on my machine (in 9 days). (Compare that to 285 minutes of CPU time that emacs has used, and 137 that Firefox has used.)