Re[2]: [Cumbria] Adding fuel to the fire...

[Ian Linwood]

Hello Michael,

Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 10:05:48 PM, you wrote:

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> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Schwuk wrote:

> Just because it starts in under a second on your particular box, doesn't
> make my post non fact-based.

No, just pointless.

> There are a LOT of older (Pentium 1/2)
> machines out there, esp. in businesses, and the sluggish performance of
> Nautilus on such machines is not a good advertisement for Linux on the
> desktop.

OK, try W2K or XP on them, see if there is an improvement.  :-(

> Naut has improved considerably with 2.0, and sports some cute features,
> but a file manager which feels as sluggish as XP's interface doesn't
> provide a good incentive to switch...

Oh, you have tried them  :-).
But you infer that they are equally as slow. Which is more reliable
and doesn't cost you 250ukp retail?

Maybe if people supported *free* software, things might develop a tad
faster. By this I mean donating either your time (testing), submitting
code, or money to projects to help them survive. Bear in mind, the
people who develop the software you use rely on this support.

-- 
Best regards,
 Ian                            mailto:ian@darksideofthemoon.org.uk