Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:19:32 -0500
"Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com" <littdom@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think Joe's point was that journalists run Windows with all sorts of
> creeping crud programs running, and evaluate it that way.
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Well, two points, first that the writers of articles outside the
specialist press aren't generally very knowledgeable about IT, and
second that Vista really does leave exactly zero RAM free, or at least
it has every time I've looked, and I still use a Vista machine
occasionally.
Other OSes use nearly all RAM, but with a bit spare to respond quickly
to the user, and generally all you have to do to recover RAM from
cached data is to mark it uncached, whereas shutting down an
application takes much longer.
I do know that once it has been running for a few minutes, Vista takes
forever to create a blank Word document or start up an (unexpected and
uncached) application, and Win 7 is much better, while still being
pretty clearly just a facelifted version of Vista. I think the
developers just had time to sort out their scheduling and RAM usage
properly, or at least better.
--
Joe
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