Did you try XFCE or something a little more light weight on the GUI front? Or even disable all the default fancy stuff.
I am still running 10 and gnome 2.3 and don't have any issues on a laptop at least 4 years old, looking to upgrade this weekend to 11.something and XFCE. On 15 December 2011 10:18, David Lyon <[email protected]>wrote: > maybe 2 years is really 5 or 6.. > > Actually, I just jumped over to learn Puppy Linux. Pretty hardcore > but everything is quite good. Ubuntu has nice graphical effects but > I have work to do and willing to lose them in an effort to get some > stuff done.. > > still curious about Android.. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
