linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Slooooow Acer Aspire Atom w/ 2GB

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Slooooow Acer Aspire Atom w/ 2GB

On my netbook, I have various USB, both Live and installed flash drives, since the internal hard drive went bad. Those I have are Zorin 6 Light for LXDE, based off Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I've also used Bodhi and WattOS 7.5, but if I want to use the internal wi-fi card, I use one of my Puppy Linux 1 GB flash drives, or I plug in an USB wi-fi card that's seen in Linux. I also tried a few others, which is nice, since it gives you a chance to see what you like and what might work best for your hardware.

By the way, if you had tried installing Win7, other than Starter, you would it see pretty slow, too. Is the hard drive a SSD or 4200, 5400, or 7800 rps hard drive?

Joan in Reno

From: "jon.perelstein@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies]" <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:11 AM
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Slooooow Acer Aspire Atom w/ 2GB

Thanks for your reply.

Why 12.10? Because when I went to the Ubuntu site, there wasn't anything that gave me - a newcomer to Linux/Ubuntu - any idea of what I should do/which version.

It's unpleasant to "hear" you say that it's unfair to make comparisons between XP and Ubuntu when so many articles and "experts" have been touting Ubuntu as the logical solution for people faced with having to migrate away from XP.

You said that you don't find Unity to be particularly fast. Is Unity the issue around the delay in opening Foxfire? Is it the issue in the speed of Libre Office?

Is there some other version of Linux I should be considering rather than Ubuntu?

Jon

---In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, <linuxcanuck@...> wrote :

I am not sure why you installed 12.10. It has no support, so you cannot even get updates to fix any problems that you might have. Six month releases like 12.10 only had 18 months, so support ran out over a year ago. Now six month releases only get nine months support. Your best bet is to install either 12.04 or 14.04 which have five years of support because they are LTS (long term support). Reports on 14.04 are good as far as speed improvements. BTW the number in front of the decimal is the year of release and the number after is the month. So 12.04 expires in 2017.

It is unfair to make comparisons between XP and Ubuntu. XP is a ten year old operating system and Ubuntu is more current. It is like comparing XP with Vista or Windows 7 and and saying Vista is slower. Of course it is. There is more happening in a newer operating system and everything gets bigger including the applications. That is just to be expected in any operating system because they are pushing the limits and competing with newer versions of other OSes.

For what it is worth, I do not find Unity (Ubuntu's desktop environment) particularly fast. There are faster options like XFCE and I find even KDE to be faster.

Roy