Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Does Linux work well on high end hardware

The easy answer is that the hardware was made to work on Windows while
Ubuntu was made to work on a wide array of hardware. The difference being
Microsoft has a cosy relationship with OEMs that works to the advantage of
each while Canonical has few. windows 7 is the platform of choice for OEMS
so they make it with that in mind. Ubuntu is not in their thinking. There
are distributions that are made to work specifically on high end hardware or
you could roll your own using Gentoo or Arch optimising it for your
particular set up.

You might want to look at this Phoronix article where Ubuntu 10.04 is tested
against Windows 7. It shows that OTB Windows 7 performs better but when the
graphics engine is optimised for Ubuntu then it does as well or better. The
crux of the problem is that there isn't much interest in OEMs to do this and
graphics engines are usually proprietary and open source drivers lag behind
by necessity.
See:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part1&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part2&num=1

To give a specific answer I would have to be familiar with your hardware and
I am not. Sorry.

Roy

On 6 July 2010 23:20, chi_joan_pc <jleach728@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "iloveubuntulinux" <valchaulinux@...> wrote:
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> > 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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> http://www.google.com/search?q=NVIDIA+GTX-285+linux&btnG=Search&hl=en&sa=2
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> http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=NVIDIA+GTX-285+linux&btnG=Search
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> Well I know Ubuntu 10.10 is faster playing online video than the previous
> version of Mint Gnome. I don't have Win7 or a Quad-Core motherboard. In this
> economy I'm making do with what I have, the 10.04 Ubuntu didn't like my
> video, so all I did was push the Esc Key to get 10.10 to install, no joy in
> 10.04 for that.
>
> Take a look at the Google search, I can see they are working on it.
>
> Good Luck,
> Joan in Reno
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