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I find it hard to believe something else isn't going on because some of those things are the exact opposite of my experience. Firefox has always been more respo

I find it hard to believe something else isn't going on because some of those things are the exact opposite of my experience. Firefox has always been more responsive on Windows. Its acceleration architecture is still more advanced on Windows. In fact, everything is more responsive and opens faster on Windows. The scheduler is way better for desktop use. Windows never becomes unresponsive for me because of background applications even though I have the scheduler set to prioritise background processes, whereas even quite recently on Linux I have still found compiling or such in the background can lead to X temporarily becoming unresponsive. Windows is certainly leagues more stable than KDE (if that's what you're using). In fact no part of Windows has crashed for me in years. These are just my experiences. I have other problems with Linux on the desktop too mainly relating to GPU stuff. Personally, while I love many aspects of Linux on the desktop and use my Linux VM all the time, I would say I still find the overall experience to be "just deplorable"

ekianjo 13y ago
It's strange that we have both very much opposite experiences. I'm not sure what you are using when you mention "linux" because responsiveness depends a lot on the distro. I wouldn't use Ubuntu, for example. As for Firefox, I guess it depends on your config/RAM/processor, but i have a i5 with 4 gigs of RAM and opening Firefox with saved tabs is slow as hell on Windows 7 while much faster on OpenSuse. By the way I'm using KDE and I don't think it's that bad in terms of stability, while I have experienced a few crashes (maybe once a month or something). It's true that Windows (from 7) has become very stable, nothing like what XP used to be: it does not crash to blue screens anymore, but it still can become very sluggish when I do audio/video editing and basically nothing much runs in parallel because it's just unusable.
- ubercow13 13y ago
  It is strange. I've used gentoo for years, arch, debian, ubuntu and probably others variously. All pretty similar experiences though I agree on ubuntu.

ekianjo 13y ago

It's strange that we have both very much opposite experiences. I'm not sure what you are using when you mention "linux" because responsiveness depends a lot on the distro. I wouldn't use Ubuntu, for example. As for Firefox, I guess it depends on your config/RAM/processor, but i have a i5 with 4 gigs of RAM and opening Firefox with saved tabs is slow as hell on Windows 7 while much faster on OpenSuse. By the way I'm using KDE and I don't think it's that bad in terms of stability, while I have experienced a few crashes (maybe once a month or something). It's true that Windows (from 7) has become very stable, nothing like what XP used to be: it does not crash to blue screens anymore, but it still can become very sluggish when I do audio/video editing and basically nothing much runs in parallel because it's just unusable.

ubercow13 13y ago
It is strange. I've used gentoo for years, arch, debian, ubuntu and probably others variously. All pretty similar experiences though I agree on ubuntu.