Linux Journal: Linux in Government: Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part III

“As we discussed in Part I and Part II of this article series,
for most of its existence, people have distributed Linux as a
workstation or a server rather than as a desktop. The default
workstation that evolved has existed mostly for use by developers.
So, when you install a Linux distribution with a graphical
interface, it generally fits the preferences of a developer. In
addition, it performs like many UNIX workstations do, which can
seem sluggish…”

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