Linux Users - Which Desktop Environment Do You Prefer ?

[Zelhar]

But when you run a system continuously for days you don't notice degrading in the performance ?

[muman613]

BTW, my favorite Linux editor still is vim, and it's graphical brother gvim... Give me a trusty vim any day...

[angryChineseKahanist]

I would have worked to figure out what was happening ACK...

Here I run my system with 30 or more windows spread accross 2 screens and 4 workspaces (I am running dual-head here at work)...

I am running large compiles which eat up 20-50% of CPU usage and still have CPU power to spare. Are you sure you have sufficient memory? Swap space? Linux does get slow when it runs low on memory and it is always good to have a large memory swap space. My home machine has 32G of RAM and I have had no slow downs due to that, but my office machine with only 4G does from time to time slow down...

I am using my network quite a lot... I use SSH to log into two other machines I manage (running HTTP, FTP, CVS, and Git servers).

Anyway, Use what you need to use to get your work done...

I have sworn off Windows and have been happy with my Linux experience since 2001...

compilers run perfectly. always.
like I said, its always a video driver issue.
not a full kernel crash.
the system still runs. just the video.

[angryChineseKahanist]

But when you run a system continuously for days you don't notice degrading in the performance ?

nope.
I can run a headless linux (no GUI no X windows) for hundreds of days without degrading performance.  rebooting only when kernel updates force me to do so.

[angryChineseKahanist]

one other thing, when I was running virtualbox at home on x, it would load up my cpu to 4 to 10 in just a week.

however, when I removed x and just went console/headless .... its been up for 15 days so far and no problems.

[Israel Chai]

nope.
I can run a headless linux (no GUI no X windows) for hundreds of days without degrading performance.  rebooting only when kernel updates force me to do so.

Doesn't that cause a corruption in the hard-drive when you keep it on, or is that just windows?

[angryChineseKahanist]

Doesn't that cause a corruption in the hard-drive when you keep it on, or is that just windows?

No. You might be thinking software corruption.
Neither OS.

[Zelhar]

Bahhh I have just had the first system freeze since I made the clean install 

At least when windows crashes it shows the BSD.

[angryChineseKahanist]

don't worry. there is a replacement for x called wayland-weston.
I'm trying their early betas on raspberry pi. so far it seems excellent. graphics looks very much like 3d first person shooter games.