hey i'm running fedora core 3 dual booting with xp. My Windows XP is so much slower, even loading song titles off mp3s happens much faster on xmms than in winamp. I was just wondering why this is?

better filesystem

better kernel

good applications

and a helpfull comuunity out there

i guess


BTW have u tried slackware it is more better i think


regards

Good points above. Don't question, just enjoy!

masand is right. Linux is just better at that.
One thing I've noticed though:
A while ago I was dualbooting Slack 9.1 and Win2K. The Linux portion was as fast as it could be, but When I had to boot into win, everything was slow as heck.
Sad as I was, I had to remove the linux bit, because there were some programs I have to run, that I then couldn't get running.
After removing the linux and formatting that partition to FAT32, windows was working as fast as usual again.

Don't know why that happened, but it did on two occations.

-Geir