[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Simon Greenwood]

On 7 February 2013 10:17, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/02/13 10:14, alan c wrote:
>
>> On 07/02/13 10:03, Gareth France wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/02/13 10:01, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7 February 2013 09:52, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 06/02/13 23:41, Philip Stubbs wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6 February 2013 23:05, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> To the best of my knowledge I wasn't using Adobe Air at the time. And
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> for Flash, of course I don't choose how others design their sites.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But you can choose what software to run on your computer. Have you
>>>>> tried a
>>>>> flash blocker? Or a different browser? Or a different version of the
>>>>> flash
>>>>> plugin? If you open the same tabs in Chrome, does it behave
>>>>> differently? I
>>>>> seem to remember that Chrome comes with its own flash plugin, so may
>>>>> well be
>>>>> worth a try. It could be that the new machine hits a bug in the flash
>>>>> plugin
>>>>> that the old machine did not.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Philip Stubbs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I can choose not to use flash in much the same way as I can
>>>>> choose to
>>>>> drive my car without wheels! It's an unfortunate fact of life that
>>>>> some of
>>>>> the websites I use require it. I can try chrome and see how it goes.
>>>>>
>>>> Your first priority is to identify what is causing the problem.  If
>>>> you install flashblock then you have the ability to choose when you
>>>> use flash.  Initially do not use it at all and see if that cures the
>>>> speed issues.  Having identified that flash is the problem (if you do)
>>>> then you can decide on the best course of action.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>>  Sounds like a plan. I'll give it a go and see what happens.
>>>
>>
>> I routinely use noscript in firefox. It gives a lot of control, and you
>> can disable it when you wish
>>
>>  Thanks Alan. I think the thing that gets to me is that aside from
> whatever I may choose to run on it I expect a machine I paid £300 for to
> run properly to begin with. None of these solutions address the problem.
> They more sort of side step it. I doubt I'm going to find the problem, I'll
> just have to avoid Packard Bell next time I upgrade.
>
>
In all honesty, that is the place to start. Packard Bell machines are built
to a price, and it's fairly likely that they need OS-based accelerators to
work properly. I'm not familiar with that processor but there are probably
features that aren't supported by Linux and require Windows-native
software, and the GPU will be integrated and underpowered. I've had similar
problems in the past with more expensive machines and have since learned my
lesson.

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