<html><head></head><body>I appreciate the comments thus far and am interested in more. However, I'm in a hurry to get this machine running. I deleted Ubuntu 12.04 and went back to 11.04 with Gnome 2 that I know and (usually) love. It's lightning fast by comparison.<br>
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Ron<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">"mike@trausch.us" <mike@trausch.us> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">On 07/15/2012 10:47 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:<br />> I just have time for a quick message, but has anyone noticed Ubuntu<br />> 12.04 runs VERY slow. I mean, my vintage 2002 single core machine on<br />> 11.04 32 bit with 1 GB of RAM runs better than my 1 year old dual core<br />> machine with 8 GB RAM on 12.04 64 bit. Google ubuntu 12.04 slow<br />> sluggish. You'll see, I'm not the only person who sees this. Anyone know<br />> anything about it and what I can do about it other than retrograde back.<br />> With this and Unity (which I've banished), I'm NOT impressed.<br /><br />I have Ubuntu on my laptop.<br /><br />The first thing I did was installed GNOME 3 from the PPA, and ditched<br />the use of Unity. I was much happier with responsiveness from my system<br />then.<br /><br /> --- Mike<br /><br />-- <br />A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic<br />than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.<br /> --- Carveth Read, “Logic”<br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>