Re: I installed openSUSE Leap

On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
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I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways.  When
you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
extremely wonderful.

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Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.

  He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
*want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
current release?  That's the bottom line:  Linux is sleek, Windows is
bulky.

For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds (1/20th of a second).
Getting the picture?  Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast.  Linux might be a little faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer is often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names matching a substring.  Ridiculous.  So for file-finding I often use Everything - another great Windows-only app that blows Linux file-finding away.
Bottom line: Windows is sublime.  Linux can't compete.