On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 8:57:12 AM UTC-4, Network Ninja wrote: > > You certainly can. To make sure it's the desktop causing the issue, I > suggest booting the machine into command line only mode. Run something like > "top" and see if the machine freezes like it did with the GUI Desktop. > > To get into command line only, from a terminal run "sudo init 3". This > will shut down the GUI and you should be at the command prompt. If you need > to get back into the GUI, you can run "sudo init 5". > > If you find the machine is not freezing as before, you can look at what > packages need to be installed to get the Desktop of your choice. There are > plenty of articles about that, but let us know how it works out for you or > if you need any help. > > Jeremiah Bess > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 10:56 PM fugee ohu <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 1:45:04 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> I tend to agree with Jeremiah. In recent time, Ubuntu has become a >>> ravenous resource hog. Any distro with a lighter weight window manager / >>> desktop environment would better. Ubuntu Mate comes to mind and any of the >>> ones in the link Jeremiah shared. Best of luck to you and let us know what >>> you decided on and if you have any questions. >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:51 AM Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The specs for the laptop show a quad-core 1GHz processor, but Ubuntu >>>> 18.04 requires a dual-core 2.0 GHz minimum ( >>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements). I >>>> think you just don't have the processing power to run that version of >>>> Ubuntu. You may want to look at light-weight versions of Linux that are >>>> better suited for your hardware. Peppermint and Lubuntu are popular >>>> choices, but this article has some others you can consider: >>>> https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners/ >>>> >>>> Jeremiah Bess >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:35 AM fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on an Asus X102B laptop This laptop has 4GB >>>>> on board ram (soldered on) I thought I'd be alright with 4GB RAM but this >>>>> thing freezes up all the time I thought it was hardware like the soldered >>>>> on memory maybe not being as good as traditional user replacable memory >>>>> but >>>>> now I'm thinking it must be Ubuntu OS >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>>>> Users Group. >>>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>>> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >>>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Linux Users Group" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>>> Group. >>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Linux Users Group" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> <>< Scott Vargovich <>< >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> OpenPGP Key ID: 29C36884 >>> ========================== >>> Ham Radio Call Sign: KE8CQC >>> ========================== >>> GMRS Call Sign: WQXJ287 >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> >> >> >> Can't I just change my desktop? I've got a lot of apps installed I don't >> wanna spend time reinstalling all of them >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Linux Users Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > Things are a lot better since I installed xubuntu-desktop but with 4gb ram I still can't run Chrome and Opera at the same time
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