On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Bernd Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Thanks for the answers and suggestions everyone! >> >> The speed issue I have is that simple things, like popup menues, clicking on >> tabs of a pagecontrol, changing tasks ...almost everything is handled too >> slowly. Compared to what I am used to, the delay is quite disturbing. The >> other kind of slowness is that when the screen is refreshed it is slow >> enough to see the different areas refreshing one by one. All together it >> feeling is similar to working in a web browser. The PC is an older one: >> Celeron 1700 CPU, 512MB RAM, 200GB HDD (10 GB for Ubuntu), Integrated >> Video, but I think it should be decent enough for running Linux. There was >> enough free RAM so the slowness could not have been caused by disk swaping >> either. > >> >> So, one thing is already clear, I will need a proper driver for the video >> card for sure. But realy would not want to be offtopic any longer, I >> better go to the Ubuntu forums to seek for more specific help. >> > > I am running Ubuntu 6x, 7x, 8x and Windows XP/2000 in VMs on the same > machine and have the same impression as you: For me, Windows feels > snappier than Ubuntu Linux. > > Regards, Bernd. > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
Let's be honest here: current versions of both GNOME and KDE are quite slower than XP UI. It always felt a bit slower - what I and many others assumed to be caused by the X architeture or lack of hardware acceleration - but benchmarks seemed to differ. Anyway "Linux" UI performance has been on a downhill for years; enlightenment 0.16 with plenty of bells and whistles runs perfectly on a Pentium 100MHz, but current encarnations of GNOME and KDE run barely acceptably on a Duron 1.2GHz (with a geforce 6200 either with vesa, nv or nvidia drivers. Of course the onboard sis video isn't any better). Enlightenment and LXDE (and other ligthweight DEs) still runs pretty smooth; XFCE doesn't cut it since it switched to GTK2 :-/ It seems CPU-related, as a Core2 notebook with a crappy via onboard video runs snappy even with either openchrome or vesa driver. -Flávio _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
