[ale] ubuntu 12.04 SLOW!

[Jay Lozier]

On 07/15/2012 01:59 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ron
>
>
If you reinstall 12.04 you might try Cinnamon 
(ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa is an unofficial repository with the latest 
version). I just installed Cinnamon on 12.04 for the wife on her laptop 
and she likes it so far.
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> "mike at trausch.us" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
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>     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
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