Re: OS advice

[briangpowell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>]

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As always great advice from Jude DaSheill:

In Emacs you can set the auto-save-interval SETQ to whatever you want;
suggest you increase that number of interval of keystrokes required before
an auto-save or maybe just turn off auto-saving altogether--if things start
to slow down

If you do try Linux; and everyone should at one point, realize that in
Linux you can easily create & mount extra "swap partitions" on your hard
drive which can be used in lieu of memory and/or in addition to it, if
indeed as you wondered, there may be a bottleneck of memory usage when you
try to use OrgMode--adding swap space may help--maybe not, I haven't looked
into it recently, don't want to get your hopes up for such a solution

In Linux you can also use exotic things like PVM--Parrallel Virtual
Memory--i.e. use memory from OTHER machines YMMV

In Linux you can also use Emacs OrgMode and/or VLFMode i.e. "Very Large
File Mode" and/or use FUSE to meld directory trees together with remote
machines & then edit with your best machine, the machine with the largest
RAM--with VLFMode in Emacs you can edit files of ANY size (since it only
puts in part of the file at a time)--or you could try VLFMode in the first
place; please tell me the results if you try that--does it speed up things
for you? Does it solve your problem?

Strongly suggest splitting up large OrgMode files when things slow down
and/or just putting a link to those other files that you may want to use
when in your main OrgMode file by using the file protocol:

[[file:~/my-OrgMode-file2][File2]] [[file:~/my-OrgMode-file3][File3]] ...

Other than that, I'd suggest trying to use CygWin on Windows first if you
haven't used CygWin yet, CygWin comes with XWindows & many other things
related to Linux that you may be familiar with can be used too--CygWin was
donated to the Free Software Communities from Red Hat--many thanks Red Hat!

What do Kill Gates' Micro$loth WindBlows users use now to run Emacs &
OrgMode?--y'all use CygWin right?

Installing CygWin on Windows is quick and easy & then so is installing
Emacs and/or OrgMode after that

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 6:19 PM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:

> Why not use a linux live disk and take the operating system for a spin
> without disrupting any of windows?  The live cd's allow for trial before
> installation.
>
>
>
> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
> .
>
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, orzodk wrote:
>
> > Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:
> >
> > > Ypo,
> > >
> > >> Do you think that if I install a Linux OS, Orgmode would run fast? Any
> > >> OS suggestion?
> > >
> > > it might (*).  if it's not too hard to install linux (i have no idea),
> you
> > > might figure out some sort of benchmark for your org experience, then
> > > try switching, see what happens.  (there are a lot of variables.)
> > >
> > > good luck.  Greg
> > >
> > > (*) as a linux enthusiast, and a knee-jerk windows-denier, i want to
> > > *believe* it will; that mostly unfounded belief will be of little help
> > > to you, though.
> >
> > I'm in a similar boat, Linux enthusiast, but you're at a point of
> > frustration where reinstalling an OS is an option then unless you're
> > looking for an execuse to install Linux you might start by reinstalling
> > Windows.
> >
> > If a fresh copy of Windows with years(?) of cruft removed still isn't
> > suitable then you might do as Greg suggests and try Linux to see if you
> > prefer that experience.
> >
> >
>
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