On Sunday 22 February 2004 2:29 pm, Andy Green wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:57, xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Thus, Linux stays as a hobbyist/hacker system for the desktop. > > ... > > > From what I see here, M$ doesn't have anything to worry about with its > > desktop solutions for quite a while. > > Did you look at the CPU usage on this machine while it was being slow? > Maybe you merely have a process somewhere eating 100% CPU. Is your BIOS > the latest and greatest? Are things still slow at runlevel 3? I checked it and there are no processes using a lot of CPU besides X. Perhaps some sort of X problem? Runlevel 3 seems to run normally but it is difficult to tell. The booting process is very slow. > > I have to say that my family is using Fedora on several laptops from > several manufacturers without trouble. My brother and my parents are also > now Fedora users, on an older P3 machine and a Transmeta laptop > respectively. Since my experience is different from yours I draw different > conclusions, which is that Linux and Fedora in particular is ready enough > for "the desktop" of our children and family. > > Just as I can imagine I would also feel embittered and negative if my only > experience had matched yours, I hope you can also imagine that other people > are having a LOT of better experiences out there, so your conslusions are > not definitive. One of the reasons I posted here was to find out if anybody else is having the same problems with a configuration like mine. > > -Andy > > -- > Find your answer without waiting for replies.... > Searchable list archives at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
