I've just finished installing and setting up my laptop with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). Previously I was using openSuSE 10.2, it makes my laptop faster (than Windows), but it really slow with the package manager (YaST).
I often hear people talking about Ubuntu (or debian) is faster than SuSE, so I give Ubuntu a shot, I took my old notebook harddisk (Hitachi 60GB
4200RPM), and d*mn, Ubuntu fly away, the performance beats openSuSE 10.2, it is 2 times faster in *almost* everything: booting, log in (to gnome), applications and of course, the Synaptics also so fast.
Whereas, the openSuSE 10.2 enjoys my new Hitachi 120GB
5400RPM, and still it beaten by Ubuntu (on the same laptop, but with 4200RPM HDD).
And guess what, I'm not even touching the Ubuntu's system configuration (hdparm, sysctl, fstab), and "it just fast as is".
I'm counting the startup time:
- openSuSE 10.2 : 2:03 minutes until login screen.
- Ubuntu: 0:53 minutes until login screen.
Is that because of the services? But I already turn off the services I don't use in openSuSE. It may be, but I wonder, how can the same applications (eclipse, firefox, vim, etc) work faster on Ubuntu.
I'll try this Ubuntu for 2-3 weeks, using it as my production laptop, and if it has no problem, well... I'll move this Ubuntu to the 5400RPM HDD, replacing the openSuSE and can I change my nickname to UbuntuHolic ?
