Thread: What makes my Graal lag?
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Old 01-18-2006, 08:53 PM
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My experience is that Linux with all features turned on (KDE and such) is similar to Windows2000 with all features turned off (no special services running), in terms of speed and RAM usage. Programs like Firefox and Graal RC2 work a little bit faster. Installation is much easier than with Windows, although I guess that many people never installed Windows2000 or XP. Most Linux distributions also have a way to easily upgrade to the latest Linux stuff without breaking installed things.

Graal takes more resources on Linux because it is using OpenGL, so if you run Graal on the same computer it should be faster than v2 but is eventualy slighly slower than v4 on Windows (depends on the graphics card).

I have not a lot of experiences with installing Linux over an existing Windows, most of the time I do partitions with the Linux installer (reserving a boot partition of 50-200 MByte, making one partition for Windows, on for Linux), then install Windows, then install Linux.
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