Thank you for explaining this! I will tell him
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> He will need to roll his sleeves up and be prepared to optimise Ubuntu for
> his hardware, then. His computer is optimised for Windows 7 at the factory
> so he doesn't have to do that for Windows 7, but Ubuntu is not optimised for
> his computer. That may mean doing some tweaking and possibly even compiling
> from source. Even then there are no guarantees that it will run as he
> expects because some things are out of his control. He may need to rely on a
> third party (OEM) to provide drivers from some of his equipment.
>
> This does not mean that Ubuntu is not as good as Windows 7, just that
> Windows 7 does not need to do anything because the OEM has done it for him.
> This is the advantage that you get by buying a pre-installed system.
>
> Roy
>
> On 7 July 2010 02:06, iloveubuntulinux <valchaulinux@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > This question is from one of my students who is a hardware and Windows
> > expert now learning Ubuntu and Linux and he wants his home built hardware to
> > run ubuntu as efficiently as it runs Windows 7....
> >
> >
> > --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "iloveubuntulinux" <valchaulinux@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Why does Windows 7 run really well on my Mushkin 4I7-920 6G RAM NVIDIA
> > GTX-285 hardware while ubuntu 10.04 doesn't work very well and is much
> > slower than Windows 7 on this hardware. I want to know if ubuntu has some
> > features that would make it not improve performance on high end hardware.
> > The intel speed step is not working for ubuntu 10.04.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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