[linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?

[carmen]

> Is Windows any better?

performance for single-threaded GUI apps is much better on winXp than linux. which is 98% of what people use windows for. try to do even two things at once, especially involving disk access, and it quickly goes downhill



> I've gotta setup a Windows box

good luck. youll learn a whole new set of workarounds and tweaks - i hope you have enough spare brain cells.

it can be made decently tolerable for light use. the first thing i'd suggest is installing MinGW, MSYS, and MSYS-DTK from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/ and adding their respective bin/'s to your PATH . then you can start->run rxvt -e bash.exe...