10.04 too heavy for my hardware

Kipton Moravec kip at kdream.com
Wed May 26 12:30:09 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 01:20 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

> Is there maybe something that takes up a lot of resources, but which can
> be turned off and thereby
> make it run more smoothly?
> Or should I just forget about it and go back to older software? (9.04
> did work acceptably)
> Or should I try maybe some other (preferrably light-weigth) version of
> Linux?
> If so, are there any recommendations?

I found turning off Visual Effects helped.

System -> Preferences -> Appearances -> Visual Effects -> None

This was a 400 MHz 256 MB system.

Kip


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