Testing Freespire

Three days ago, I fired up Linux Freespire (Linspire without the proprietary bits). As will be seen by the image, it is beautifully designed. It passed all my tests, too, which places it among a minority of systems that do. However, although it never jammed up, it must be the slowest Linux I have ever tried. Chrome took 45 seconds to load. I rebooted and tried again. 45 seconds. This was reduced to about 15 seconds if one called it up twice in the same session. In addition, the menu only worked while programs were not loading. I installed LibreOffice Write. This worked fine. I tried to uninstall the default word processor -- Freespire refused, but I could hide it from view. Of some concern to me was the difficulty I had in taking control of the system as super-user. I succeeded inside the terminal, but nowhere else. I like to have complete control of the system. OBSERVATION: So, a very nice system, but if you intend to use it, you might wish to consider Cray Inc. for your next computer. Some Linuxes incidentally are very fast, and one browser that I have on my current system loads in less than a second.