{"id":3460,"date":"2011-07-12T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2011-07-11T19:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T23:40:22","slug":"slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/i-knew-that-OS-question.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3470\" title=\"i knew that OS question\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/i-knew-that-OS-question-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"i knew that OS question\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A friend stopped by the other day and we talked computers.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to know why his Windows system took so long to load and get working.\u00a0 Once booted up,\u00a0 it seems that his system was taking quite a long time to allow him to access the desktop, applications, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Since he runs Windows, the answer is pretty obvious.\u00a0 Windows is busy allowing anti-virus and anti-spyware programs to update themselves. This involves downloading and installing new databases so they can detect new viruses and threats.\u00a0 These programs sometimes also do a routine scan on boot-up to make sure your system is free of infections.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a bad thing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s good to know that your system is being protected. However, it can delay for several minutes your ability to access to and use the system.<\/p>\n<p>With <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a>, you don&#8217;t have to wait.\u00a0 <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a> boots up fast and as soon as you&#8217;ve logged on, you can start surfing the web, playing music and videos, editing documents, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This is because <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a> is immune to Windows viruses and spyware. <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a> doesn&#8217;t require all that extra antivirus software. These Windows anti-virus programs run constantly in the background and eat up valuable processing resources.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, with Linux, you can choose from a number of desktop environments to run.\u00a0 These can be feature rich (Like <a title=\"KDE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org\">KDE<\/a> and <a title=\"Gnome\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Gnome<\/a>) or streamlined and light weight (Like <a title=\"LXDE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lxde.org\" target=\"_blank\">LXDE<\/a> or <a title=\"XFCE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xfce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">XFCE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Linux lets you choose!<\/p>\n<p>Give <a title=\"Distrowatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\/\">Linux<\/a> a try!\u00a0 You&#8217;ll immediately see how fast, stable, and secure it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend stopped by the other day and we talked computers. He wanted to know why his Windows system took so long to load and get working.\u00a0 Once booted up,\u00a0 it seems that his system was taking quite a long time to allow him to access the desktop, applications, etc. Since he runs Windows, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10,282,102],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos","tag-slow","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}