Thank for your courtesy and new thread. Again, I'm quite a Linux computer bumpkin, so I'll just share my experience for your feedback input. I use openSuSE linux, both 32 and 64 bit. My wife's laptop is 64 bit Windows 7, I have a Windows 7 32bit somewhere, too. The Windows 7 64 bit is all but useless, even after an expensive repair. My 64 bit openSuSE boxes mostly sit turned off. My web client machine (this machine) is an old core2 duo 32 bit 4gB ram running openSuSE 13.2. My development boxes usually just run openSuse12.2 32bit with similar hardware. The linux desktop was quite a pleasant surprise for me. I usually run 10 virtual desktops, sometimes use a virtual terminal. This all runs with KDE or XFCE. I like XFCE because I can have dozens of open NEdit text editors organized and stable. Currently, I'm enjoying learning ever more about Tcl/Tk after over 20 years. The KDE desktop installs with crazy amounts of "eye candy" and even has an "Activities Manager" adding yet another dimension of UI, most likely intended to fool your boss by quickly switching from playing to working. I usually unset the eye candy and set the OpenGL off and use XWindow rendering. The only time I run a bunch of browser windows is on eBay or programming language HTML manual pages. But all this said, I think you are likely right about Windows GUI efficiency. Professional video editors I know use Windows. Gamers love Windows. Haudy Kazemi wrote: > Hello, > > I am splitting this topic off from the other thread, hoping that someone > has a solution or recommendations. > > My experience with Android and Windows is they both do a very good job > in dealing with processes that become very memory or CPU hungry. The > systems tend to stay responsive (may lag slightly, but usable), and > recoverable (task managers can still be brought up), even under extreme > memory and CPU pressure. > > I have yet to find a desktop Linux distro that can do nearly as well. > Chrome and Firefox both easily get into 100% CPU usage and high memory > usage situations on desktop Linux, resulting in nonresponsive systems, > that I don't experience on Android or Windows. These situations are easy > enough to hit that even novice users can experience them with only a > handful of open tabs, depending on the sites open. (On the exact same > hardware, Windows can run the same browser with the same or even more > tabs and survive). With these problems, I find it hard to recommend > Linux as a general purpose desktop OS to others or even use it as my own > desktop as my daily driver. Linux seems to do okay when the upper bounds > of the loads are well-defined and easily fit within the available resources. > > Does anyone know of a distro that does as good as a job at maintaining > resource control and desktop responsiveness under heavy load as Android > or Windows? I would love to hear about it. > > Thanks, > > -hk > > P.S. a relevant article, "Yes, Linux Does Bad In Low RAM / Memory > Pressure Situations On The Desktop" > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Does-Bad-Low-RAM > > P.P.S. It appears that Android uses pressure stall information (PSI) to > mitigate these problems per > post https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discussion/1118164-yes-linux-does-bad-in-low-ram-memory-pressure-situations-on-the-desktop?p=1118174#post1118174 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >