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Why did my install all of a sudden get really slow?

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http://askubuntu.com – It is just running really sluggish, and slow... Kinda reminds me of when I work on Windows computers that are full of Virii.. Any ideas or suggestions? Let me know if you need any more information. Also, my computer usually runs pretty fast, I have Linux Mint, and Windows installed on the same PC and they run fine... (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 12/16/2011 – Made popular on 12/16/2011

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I have been running 12.04 LTS (fresh install) for 4 months, upgrading from 10.04 LTS. I apply all updates when notified. The hardware is Intel i5 on a Gigabyte 1155 M/B with no additional graphics adapter. I do not use the Unity interface, only the latest gnome.

My keyboard and mouse are the Logitech S 510 combo that works fine in 10.04 LTS, on Mint, Centos/Red Hat and . . . . Windows.

I tried installing WUBI on a very slow computer running Windows XP. I thought that maybe it would get some extra life out of the computer, but it was so slow that I removed the WUBI and gave up. If I make a partition and install a regular version of Ubuntu to that partition will this give me the result I'm looking for, or is a slow computer just a slow computer!

Fedora 11 all 2GHz? 3 years 30 weeks ago

Hey all.

Im new to the forum and Linux for that matter, and I'm very very busy with my time, so Ill apologize now if this is already a question here on the forum. I just simply dont have the time to look around for it.

Anyways, to the question.

Why my computer runs too slow when I install Ubuntu or any other Linux (Debian works better than other distros), but with windows works fine...?

My configuration is: Processor: Intel Celeron CPU 1.70GHz Graphics: Ati Radeon 9250 128 MB HD: Western Digital 120GB RAM: 2GB DDR1 Motherboard: MSI (MS-6566)

Is there anything unsuported by Ubuntu, or any Linux.

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on an old Dell Centrino/512mb machine that was running too slow with Windows to be useful. I am completely new to Linux and muddling my way through as well as I can. The machine still runs pretty slow on Ubuntu. So I loaded the Gnome shell and the classic (no effects) runs fairly well. Everything seemed to be fine up until this.

According to this article on wikipedia.org, "As of the end of August 2010, Windows XP is the most widely used operating system in the world with a 53.1% market share".Now that's a lot of computers! As a technology expert, I know my way around computers, and I also know Windows XP. And something else I really know, is how SLOW any Windows computer gets over time.

Ubuntu is very slow on esxi5 37 weeks 6 days ago

I have installed ubuntu 12.04 32bit on Vmware esxi 5 update 1.

The virtual machine is: 2 core, 4 GB RAM, 64 MB VGA.

Still the vm is very very slow (with and without the vmware tools) .

First of all, I'm very new to Linux, so I apologize in advance any stupid questions I may ask.

Anyway, a couple days ago I reformatted (got tired of dealing with a stubborn windows virus), and decided to give linux a go. I'm running a dual-boot setup with Mint 13 MATE and Windows 7, on separate partitions. My internet speed is ok with Windows but browsing with linux is really slow.

So I got to installing Ubuntu 12.10 on a SONY VAIO desktop (a Sony VAIO RS420) but it runs terribly slow. The windows load slow (it won't even pull up Terminal, but connects to WiFi and opens Firefox) but the computer itself seems to run fine (like when downloading files or moving files it works BETTER than Windows 7). I did get an error about needed to update a language pack, but that's it.