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On Sun, 22 May 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
On 22/05/11 10:45, Gordon Henderson wrote:Her response was that it was a *lot* faster than XP! However, what she really meant wasn't that it was faster overall, but that she could run more applications at the same time and switch between them - something that seems extremely "clunky" under XP.Funny because I think Desktop scheduling is still suspect, that said I can quite believe XP does it worse, especially if memory is short. Also XP has painful start-up times which degrades quickly as the registry fragments, easy to fix, but I like the way chkdsk says "one of the files you need to start your computer has been saved in 500 fragments, there is no need to defrag this drive".
I've been using something called MyDefrag on her XP machine for a while - seems better than the built-in one, but slower, but it can run as a screen saver...
(I'm almost tempted to simply mount her home directory via NFS though - however we only have 100Mb networking here and that might slow things down a bit)Some of the apps like urm Firefox have started using small SQL databases and the like which makes having a home directory on a network mount more painful than one would want. If it can be avoided stick with synchronising it for backup.
Yes, sqlite - which I use myself for a few things. It's the one thing that makes Firefox go slow on my AAO - as writes to it's SSD are painfully slow and firefox seems to force-write everything it does now - presumably to recover when it crashes...
It might have been harder had she been using Outlook or some other Email system, however at least she's been using IMAP for ever.Mozilla importers for their Windows versions will move it across to a form that is easily exported to GNU/Linux, it is an extra step...
A few google searches suggested simply copying it over from the XP box "as is" - which is what I did - I used the file manager to copy the entire Thunderbird profile directory from the XP side to the .thunderbird directory - and it worked! No exporting accounts, addresses, themes, settings, etc.
I didn't like the standard Gnome idea of using 2 "bars" for stuff - we started by moving the bottom one to the right and the top one to the bottom, but really want to lose one of them completely, so some adjusting will be needed there. Although her monitor is 4:3, I think that in these days of wide, short screens, we need all the vertical space we can get!I just have them auto-hide. Kind of got use to having both of them.
I did suggest it, but she's not keen on it. (I'm not keen on it either, but I don't have that sort of desktop - I don't have anything like it at all)
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