Honestly I never even looked to see what I have for a graphics card. This is my wife's old laptop, I bought her a Macbook and took her machine over. I've since added an SSD and maxed out the ram at 8 gigs.
I'll poke around at it a bit, I'm sure there is more I can do, right now I have bigger fish to fry. Rich Richard Kolb II On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > wrote: > On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised > > me considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my > > 14.x LTS machine. > > Does it perhaps have a worse graphics card--or perhaps even just > a _worse-supported_ graphics card? Bottlenecks can be > at the near end just as well as they can be at the far end.... > > I had that problem when I upgraded Debian and got GNOME 3 > a few years ago--"it" just started seeming to crawl along..., > so I finally upgraded from my 3dfx Voodoo 3 board to a Radeon > and then everything was _much better_. > > In that case, "it" turned out to not by my CPU or RAM or > HDD or anything further away from me than the display system. > > (I may actually be mixing up the overly-specific details of > this upgrade story with from slightly longer ago, and > therefor exaggerating slightly: I may have actually have > already upgraded from the Voodoo 3 to a Radeon 9250 PCI card > a year two prior to that and then finally realised that I > could upgrade by just pulling the 9250 out and using the > motherboard's inbuilt Radeon RS480 because the upgraded Xorg > finally had support for that. But either way the story is > *qualitatively* the same--and frankly I prefer it the way > I originally remembered it :)) > > -- > "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." >
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