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>Firefox is faster on Windows than on Linux. Not on any of my computers. I have windows 8 installed on a separate partition on my laptop and have literally onl
by danford 12y ago
>Firefox is faster on Windows than on Linux.
Not on any of my computers. I have windows 8 installed on a separate partition on my laptop and have literally only used it to upgrade the system and I installed firefox to browse the web while I wait for updates.
This pristine OS that has almost never been used boots up fairly fast, but then when I login it takes 3 minutes to load the start screen. Then of course the first thing I want to do is go to my desktop, but guess what? The whole OS chokes when I click the button to bring it up. I've gotten use to giving windows 8 a "warm up" period of about ten minutes, but this still doesn't help. I go to open Firefox on the desktop and literally nothing happens for 3 minutes, I end up pressing the icon again, then I get 5 FF windows, 2 mcaffe pop-ups, some crap from dell, and oh look! more up-dates. This is on a brand new dell with integrated graphics and an intel core i5 with regular HDD. Linux doesn't have any of these problems. Now I'm sure you can tell me all the tricks to getting Windows to run faster, but if I wanted to spend all day configuring my OS I would use Arch.
How many people work in your company if you don't mind me asking? In my experience, a lot of companies that have thousands of computers are employing people who aren't important enough to have a company Outlook account. Believe it or not many companies still use dos (and train the employees to use a command line dos interface in 3 days).
Plenty of companies can switch to Linux, maybe not your 15 person start-up where everyone has a specialized task, but plenty of others can.
- orkoden 12y agohttp://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wi... > Now I'm sure you can tell me all the tricks to getting Windows to run faster, No, I can't. But it surely seems pretty slow. >but if I wanted to spend all day configuring my OS I would use Arch. :3 > How many people work in your company if you don't mind me asking? 60 people, though I don't work there anymore.
- danford 12y agoThat article is from 6 years ago though. In browser years that's 18.5 years ago.
- jebblue 12y agoBack when I used to dual boot, 2007, I would try playing UT2004 on Windows then on Ubuntu, it was always faster on Ubuntu. I even tried the Windows version on Wine on Ubuntu and it was faster. That's perception but a gamer's perception. When Valve ported Steam to Linux they found in their _initial_ port that it was...faster. They then found out why and were able to speed up the Windows version but the Linux version is still faster. If Firefox is slower on Linux this is a fault of Mozilla (remember the tolerant techies who fired a new CEO due to their intolerant thinking).
- Wohui 12y agoIt was a few years back that FF was so sluggish in linux. (fast in Debian now) That was the time I tried Opera. The difference in bootup time was like night and day, and it was quicker rendering certain pages, but in the long run those pages were outnumbered by ones Opera was actually slower at.
- higherpurpose 12y agoYes, that's a marketing trick Microsoft managed to pull with Windows 8. "Look, Windows 8 boots in 15 seconds!" - until the lockscreen, and then it takes 2 minutes to load everything.