[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux counter to Vista

[Dennis Myhand]

Fred wrote:
> I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 system
> and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. What a desktop 
> enhancement!
>
> Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the computer
> because of the extra overhead that it requires and because I personally do
> not need or want many of the bells and whistles that are provided. So, to
> summarize, it is really nice eye candy but it made my system slow down
> because I don't have gobs of memory.
>
> Fred
>   
Hi Fred:

When the second RC of Vista came out I ran it on my 64bit Athlon 3000+ 
with one gig of RAM.  It was painfully slow.  After reading Slashdot 
last week I found that I was short three gigs of RAM for Optimal 
Operation.  I have heard that Vista was supposed to have all the 
necessary enhancements that OS X has encouraged in operating systems, 
but I don't see it.  OS X is so very far ahead of Vista that MS will 
never catch up without buying Apple and putting their logo on the 
package.  And yet, for almost all of what I need to do, with the 
exception of a couple of games, I use Debian, and need nothing more.