On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:19:32 -0500 "Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com" <litt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think Joe's point was that journalists run Windows with all sorts of > creeping crud programs running, and evaluate it that way. > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140307172020.7e0a2...@jretrading.com
