Ubuntu 11.10 performance

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:38:15PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 3 January 2012 07:50, Carsten Agger <agger at modspil.dk> wrote:
> >
> >> I can attest that the problem with Ubuntu One is not just you - I get
> >> that too. I just removed it. I use Dropbox instead.
> >>
> >> I have not seem the rest, though. But yes, as Ubuntu grows, it is indeed
> >> getting slower.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> 
> I am sorry that it was not more informative!
> 
> > Yesterday, I installed Xubuntu and started using it instead of Unity, and
> > that improved the situation somewhat.
> 
> Yes, I can believe that!
> 
> > There is still a problem, though, and Evolution and Firefox still take
> > unreasonably long time to launch. But it's clearly better with Xubuntu.
> >
That's Evolution rather than the underlying Linux version I think.  On
my I3 quad processor system it takes several seconds to start Evolution.
I no longer use it.

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Chris Green