[ale] Slow Ubuntu desktop login

[Boris Borisov]

Well I have Win10 and Ubuntu on A6 AMD. Just want it to compare.

It is shame but Ubuntu is slower.

I don't know what it does but hard drive is spinning like crazy.



On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 17:19 DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 2/5/21 1:46 PM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
> > Okay, yeah, a 2 core Dell 960 is assumed to be slow. However, this
> > one seems really slow. Running Gnome/Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, mostly
> > vanilla desktop install.
> >
> > I can hit "escape" on boot and get it to show the process
> > initialization. After that, it blanks out. About 30 seconds later I
> > see a mouse cursor, and then at about 45 seconds the window login
> > screen appears.
> >
> > Is there a way to see what it's doing? Or is that expected from
> > Gnome on a 2 core box?
>
> systemd-analyze
> systemd-analyze blame
> systemd-analyze critical-something ....
> That's for boot stuff.  Beware, it isn't 100% factual - RTFM.
>
> If you hit ESC while Ubuntu is booting, you should see the dmesg output.
> But I don't reboot often enough where 2 minutes matters to me.
>
> I have no idea what a Dell 960 is and don't feel like looking it up.
> Gnome3 is a hog. It is heavily GPU dependent. Pick a better DE or
> don't use any DE if you care about speed. Stay with a pure WM-only
> environment.
>
> Ubuntu's default desktop is for people with a current GPU, current CPU,
> and sufficient RAM. Low-end and older systems need not bother. Snaps
> have made a huge negative boot and RAM problem for default Ubuntu
> installs.
>
> For 100% noobs to Linux, Linux Mint seems to be a better, less confusing,
> option.  They don't have multiple package types and aren't pushing more
> snaps with confusing constraints onto their users like Canonical is.
> Almost every day, I see someone ask why program X can't access storage Y.
> This is due to snap constraints almost always. Plus, snaps have issues
> with NFS, but very few typical home users have NFS.
>
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