[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Mon Feb 5 08:12:45 UTC 2007


> The "user experience" I've had with MS products is uniformly slow -
> start up and shut down are horribly slow, and general performance is
> sluggish even on fast modern hardware.

The best enhancement I've come across lately for Windows XP is to remove
the Norton suite of anti-virus etc. which comes pre-installed on so many
machines at the moment.  Start-up and shut-down are speeded up by a factor
of at least 5.  AVG is a good replacement.

John

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