[GRASS-user] Grass on Windows any different?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Victoria
<daniel.victoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently changed jobs and now I have to use Windows. So first of
> all, I'd like to congratulate the team that made WinGrass possible!

(I suppose you mean the native winGRASS version, not Cygwin-winGRASS)

> It's working great. I just have some questions.
>
> Is there any speed difference between the Linux / Windows version?

Yes, a few things don't work (yet) in winGRASS native.
See the relatively up to date list here:
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Known_Issues

> WinGrass feels slower for me but I can't tell if it's the software or
> if it's the crappy old computer I'm stuck with :)

I don't think that it should be significantly slower. If there is the "time"
command, you could do some comparative calculations and report
back here.

Markus