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Linux is not really better than windows, just different. I find it better for a lot of reasons, but both...

by Yorik on 23.08.2011

Commenting post 139: Linux is not really better than windows, just different. I find it better for a lot of reasons, but both system have their strong points. For running graphic software, linux has the advantage of being much more light on the system resources. So if you run a heavyweight application, you can dedicate more resources of you r system to it instead of having it eaten by the operating system. For example, I run a very lightweight debian installation, which occupies about 100Mb of RAM. Compare to windows 7, which occupies about 1.3Gb... When you render a heavy 3D file, it happens often that you need more than 3Gb ram. On a 4Gb system it makes a big difference. A lot of other factors such as maximum use of shared components, etc... also can make applications running on Linux faster.

But it is not a golden rule of course. An application well programmed on windows will surely run much better than something badly done on linux.

Really it should be a matter of preference. Windows is more "well known", has more applications available, while linux can be faster, and is certainly much more fun to tweak and customize. I think you should try, you'll see by yourself... No need to install anything, you can just grab a live iso (such as http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download ), burn it on a cd, then try it without changing anything to your system...

by Yorik on 23.08.2011