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I have played around with various unix ditros over the years and generally gave up pretty quickly because of the hassle of setting it up, and not having any real apps to run.
I just got a copy of Ubuntu 7.10, and quite like it except for one thing. It runs so damn slow. I have a P4 2.8 with 512Mb mem and everything in Ubuntu takes several seconds or more.
Win XP on the same hardware runs fine.
I have tried to turn of all of the flashy stuff in Gnome Desktop.
When I say it runs slow I mean that opening and closing simple applications takes from a few up to 10 seconds. Launching terminal takes 3 or 4 seconds, opening a folder located on another drive takes about 5 seconds.
I have a video card. It's a lowly nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000, but it works fine with XP at 1280 x 1024.
As for swap file, I have a reasonably new 80GB drive. I allowed the setup to do whatever it wanted as far as setting up it's own partitions and swap file - default setup.
The only time I've had an issue like that is when I had Beryl installed and misconfigured, but I"m pretty sure Beryl isn't shipped stock because of the instabilities. Did you install Xgl/Beryl/Compiz at all?
Alternatively, in a console run "top" and see what process is using all of your memory and/or CPU.
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It runs like ass on mine too. I reinstalled with Feisty, then upgraded to Gutsy. Works without the slowdowns. I don't know what configurations they added to 7.10, but it is slowwwww.
The only time I've had an issue like that is when I had Beryl installed and misconfigured, but I"m pretty sure Beryl isn't shipped stock because of the instabilities. Did you install Xgl/Beryl/Compiz at all?
Alternatively, in a console run "top" and see what process is using all of your memory and/or CPU.
I haven't installed it consiously on top of the standard install. I'll rebuild it tonight and try top; fortunately the install is quite fast - big improvement.
Well, you might not have enough memory. I checked my processes and with compiz on, firefox (5 tabs) and a few taskbar apps, I'm already using ~500MB memory.
Xubuntu would probably run a lot smoother on your PC, give the LiveCD a try first though because XFCE might not be to your tastes.
I have personally had much better luck with KDE. Gnome did just what yours does for me and I have a pretty beefy computer. Find Kubuntu or I got PCLinuxOS2007 it works great and is a little more capable out of the box than Ubuntu.
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