[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

[James Kelsh]

Sounds cool!! I was amazed at how much faster openSUSE was on my 2012 Asus with an i3 processor, 4 gig of ram and an ssd after I switched to the XFCE desktop!!!!
Your desktop environment makes a big difference!!

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> On Jun 23, 2018, at 5:40 PM, rmarksteffen at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Cheap Pentium/Celeron laptops were discussed a while back on the list
> and I decided to go ahead and get myself one as Canada Computers still
> had a sale on.
> 
> I purchased an Acer Swift 1 refurb for $350.  Great little laptop,
> aluminum case, 13"ish 1080p IPS display.  64GB onboard SSD (but an M.2
> slot available for expansion) and 4GB RAM (not upgradable).  Pentium
> N4200 (quad core, non-hyperthread, quicksync, not a speed demon but
> passive cooling and long battery life).  I can get about 8 hours of
> typical use approximately (should be solid 8+ hours now).  I've got all
> my regular apps loaded
> (evolution/libreoffice/gimp/firefox/chrome/synced mail/documents/a
> couple ISOs I use regularly) and I'm about 38% full disk, not bad (I
> have not used the M.2 slot yet).
> 
> Anyway, I was finding the default Ubuntu 18 to be a little laggy (and
> taking a lot of memory) so after doing a few basic things like
> disabling animations and stuff, and still not being happy, I changed to
> LightDM.  Still using Unity/gnome shell it was better, a little less
> memory use, but still I felt there should be major room for
> improvement.  So I switched over to LXDE/openbox/lubuntu.  WOW!!  Much
> much faster, I can load into ram every app I normally use and then some
> and still have 2GB of RAM free (not even touching swap).
> 
> The "lag" is completely gone and everything is very snappy.  (Web
> browsing in Firefox was never laggy, just general window-managery type
> functions).  Anyway, I'm sold, this unit is now a very acceptable daily
> driver.
> 
> Mark
> 
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