To a certain
degree this is true, for most folks at least. But as we??™ve said
before, Linux users are tinkerers at heart. Many of us will
gladly spend hours to make our computers work harder,
faster, and smarter. Like the amateur auto mechanics of
generations past, a cottage industry of overclockers and
performance zealots has risen among the hordes of
geekdom. And with the capability that Linux and other
open-source software gives you to look under the hood and
see for yourself what??™s going on, you can find the way to
squeeze that last bit of juice out of an application.
The amount of benefit you can get by optimizing your
system varies, depending on what kinds of tasks you are
trying to perform. Even with all the shortcuts built in to
any modern word processor, no software tricks will make
your fingers type any faster in OpenOffice.org under
openSUSE than in Microsoft Word in Windows. In the next
few pages, we will look at ways to get a little more oomph
out of your openSUSE system.
You should understand that optimization is not an absolute
term.
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