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

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@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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....
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> --- 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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