Please keep the thread civil and read the whole thing first, it is huge and you can learn a lot from it + the comments are also interesting.

  • mekhos
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    52 years ago

    Well it looks like a lot of thought has gone into it, but I got to say when facing reading a huge article, this tone in the intro makes me weary

    “…but I fear you won’t be, for most of you are too superficial to realize the importance of some of the facts.”

    • @pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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      122 years ago

      Imagine spending your time writing online rants about how terrible FOSS software is instead of helping to improve it. Idk where this entitlement comes from.

      • CHEF-KOCHOP
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        -12 years ago

        It is not really a rant rather than a Benchmark Review, he added some stuff afterwards based on the comments. He even mentioned and pointed out some jokes, mixed with his own experienced he had.

        Also, he did not say FOSS or open source in general is terrible, he said that Linux has a terrible performance, which is based on the Benchmarks correct.

        Windows also had issue, remember the SSD performance story, the M2 performance story, that happened last year.

        Bottom line is that the performance overall was not okay, I think not on Windows and also not on Linux and that both as need to continue to optimize.

        • @pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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          42 years ago

          It is not really a rant rather than a Benchmark Review

          Ah, I must have overlooked that because the benchmark only makes up a small part of the text and because of the title.

  • @a_Ha@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    Great article : some parts are about :

    1- USB flash drive benchmarks, * many models, * many file systems …
    2- copying large files beyond the internal caching abilities of the flash drive makes the writing speed drop by ~10x … so, impossible to trust any benchmarks ; real use ( Linux install for instance), has to be done.
    3- all Linux’s window managers and all it’s desktop environments are less ergonomic than Win95, … KDE Plasma 5 is an horrendous bloat.
    ~ ~ ~
    The author of this article is doing his job, don’t ask a cinema critique to shoot movies. (… i may update after reading more )

    • @a_Ha@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      continuing.my.comment.:
      From that article :

      “For fuck’s sake, are they all completely dumb in the FOSS world?!”

      This statement is completely wrong in most situations, yet :
      .1) in the context it seems right, and
      .2) the word “dumb” should be replaced by “disconnected” from user’s reality.