____/ waterskidoo on Monday 06 August 2007 23:14 : \____
> On 2007-08-05, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ____/ waterskidoo on Sunday 05 August 2007 18:51 : \____
>>
>
>> Really? I'm always afraid of installing /anything/ that might sip resources,
>> awn included. I'm still using a 1.8Ghz box and a lot of resources are
>> drained when indexing (in RAM) 120,000 USENET posts, running Firefox with
>> dozens of plugins, and using Thunderbird which can be made equally 'fat'. At
>> the moment, I maintain a fairly minimal KDE desktop. It used to be the
>> opposite, with lots of panels all over the place and maximal eye candy.
>
> Bad choice of words on my part. What I meant by infrastructure is
> the security model, permissions, file system etc.
> IOW those things were designed into the system rather than
> grafted on later, or not at all, for Windows.
>
>> The thought of running a KDE desktop with KDE apps and having Norton
>> anti-virus underneat is just bizarre (and resource-draining). Then you have
>> the system updates with forced reboots, WGA, and the rest of these
>> deficiencies. Registry bloat, defrag, and so forth...
>>
>> Weird...
>
> Agreed!
> Just the word "Norton/Symantec" makes me cringe.
Back when I was helping some university professors when their PCs, I noticed
that these suites are not only resource pigs, but they also intercept a lot of
signals and can result in a person being unable to work for days _or WEEKS_.
The same goes for the need to 'rebuild' Windows PCs or 'fix' them. It is very
time consuming and unpleasant. There's usually a loss to accept, as well.
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