There doesn't seem to be anything in the article related both to speed and to Desktop installations of Linux specifically.<p>> Desktop applications can experience long and noticeable pauses when the application's code path jumps to a part of the code that is not cached in memory and needs to be read from the disk, which is slower.<p>It seems that most times the author uses the word "desktop", as above, it could be removed and the article would probably be improved by it. I know "Linux desktop" is a catchy phrase, but really.