Hi all,
I've had a problem with speed - or the lack thereof - ever since I installed this version of Mint (10 Julia). It's been even more noticeable since I had an extra 2 gigs of Ram installed; with 4 gigs now, Windows XP is speeding along while Mint can barely handle right-clicks on the mouse. Since one of the reasons I went with Linux was because I thought it would be faster, this has been really disappointing.
I did discover when I had the extra RAM put in that this computer can handle 64-bit versions of things. Right now I have Mint's 32-bit version installed; I'm thinking of upgrading to the 64-bit to see if it will make a difference in the speed. But it's a huge download for my bandwidth-restricted wireless connection. So before I do it I thought I'd ask for suggestions.
The way I did the first installation was to download and set up Mint on a flash drive, then boot with that and click "install" on the desktop. I figure I'll do the same this time. But -
Can I just leave the current Mint partitions (I think there are 2) the way they are and let the installation "wizard" write over them? Will it do that? Or should I wipe the partitions and let the installation set them up from scratch? I have no problem with deleting the partitions; I have software in XP that will do that (I had to use it with the original installation because it took several tries to get it to work - there was a problem with the username case). And of course everything is backed up, both on the Windows side and on an external hard disk. I just don't want to have to manually specify partitions; I couldn't figure that part out before and I don't expect it will be any easier this time.
I hope all of this makes sense; it's hard to explain what you don't understand well.
Anyway - I'll appreciate any ideas or suggestions you may have to make this process as simple and easy as possible. And thanks in advance for your help.
Meg
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