[ale] ubuntu 12.04 SLOW!

[mike at trausch.us]

On 07/15/2012 10:47 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I just have time for a quick message, but has anyone noticed Ubuntu
> 12.04 runs VERY slow. I mean, my vintage 2002 single core machine on
> 11.04 32 bit with 1 GB of RAM runs better than my 1 year old dual core
> machine with 8 GB RAM on 12.04 64 bit. Google ubuntu 12.04 slow
> sluggish. You'll see, I'm not the only person who sees this. Anyone know
> anything about it and what I can do about it other than retrograde back.
> With this and Unity (which I've banished), I'm NOT impressed.

I have Ubuntu on my laptop.

The first thing I did was installed GNOME 3 from the PPA, and ditched
the use of Unity.  I was much happier with responsiveness from my system
then.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”



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