Comments on: What’s with the lousy start time? http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Windows 7, start to finish « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40668 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:15:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40668 [...] Since I am not a Windows user and probably never will be, I won’t bother denigrating the latest Microsoft effort to stay in business. Although after a while, it becomes obvious to anyone — Linux users or Windows users — that people have to keep buying Windows, or Microsoft would go bankrupt. And from that, it becomes equally obvious why there is so much fooferah, and why Windows’ reputation for performance suffers so many critics. Myself included. [...]

]]> By: ste http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40331 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:53:41 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40331 Yes – I have an iBook G4 which went from Panther – Tiger – Leopard over 4 years with no issues. For the years I used linux, I never really kept a setup for longer than a few months at a time before reinstalling or switching distro, so I can’t really comment on that.

I’ve never had a Windows install last anywhere near a year down to this sort of thing, though.

]]> By: Luca http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40151 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:39:59 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40151 I’m not going to get involved with the Windows vs. Linux argument, but I will share with you that Mac OS X doesn’t have the same slowdown issues, at least not as noticably as Windows.

]]> By: IceBrain http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40131 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40131 *compatibility

I think the problem is more related to poor software practices, with half finished products just to ship sooner and don’t pay enough “attention” to the uninstalling process.

Most software made for Linux users are actively used by their own creator, so they have a good reason to worry about things like that.

But Windows concepts like the “registry” and trusting executable installers to clean things up (as opposed to package systems like ‘debs’ or ‘rpms’) don’t really help.

]]> By: colonelcrayon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40130 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:41:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/whats-with-the-lousy-start-time/#comment-40130 The core structure of Windows is obsolete and archaic. They can’t replace it without breaking backward compatability.

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