Ubuntu Performance Guides

[subratabera]

I recently did a switch of Windows to Ubuntu and then upgraded to Fiesty Fawn (7.04) earlier this week. I must say, Ubuntu rocks but has it’s drawbacks. I hate to give Windows any credit when it comes to better performance, but unfortunately out of the box, a Windows XP system for example does perform faster than a default install of Ubuntu. That does not mean Ubuntu cannot be tweaked to boost performance to surpass Windows.

We’ve compiled a list of resources that can be used to improve performance on your Ubuntu operating system.
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Subrata Bera.

[praka123]

^ out of the box ubuntu edgy and feisty performs faster and better than winxp and vista.is my personal experiance.
thx to upstart in latest ubuntu's and Debian GNU/Linux

[~Phenom~]

^^true for me also.

[cynosure]

^^ This aint true on my specs

[mehulved]

Depends on if it is XP or XP SP2. XP is certainly faster than feisty out of the box.

[vignesh]

Any *nix based system is faster than winblows