Why so slow? Any suggestions welcome!

[Frankie_B]

Hello!

Just installed latest version of Ubuntu 64bit on a 2Ghz system with about 800Mb RAM and it's sloooooow... can't even play music smoothly. Any suggestions? Maybe a less resource hungry distribution you could recommend?

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

Ubuntu 11.10 system requirements recommend at least 1 GB of RAM, so that's most likely your problem. Are you in a position to be able to install more memory?
If not, you could try a less resource intensive DE like Xfce or LXDE.

If the above doesn't help, you might want to take a look at antiX or MEPIS.

[devils casper]

Which Graphics Card do you have? Post the output of this

lspci | grep -i vga

[Frankie_B]

re graphics card question, I get the following

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)

Many thanks

[devils casper]

You should install Nvidia Proprietary driver. Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Have you checked Additional Drivers option?

[champ_weller]

is it possible your processor is only a 32 bit?

[TLARbb]

is it possible your processor is only a 32 bit?

I'm thinking to myself that is the problem. Most 64bit systems have between 2 and 4 GB RAM to start with expandable to 8 or 16 GB. I think you should put a 32bit version on the machine and try it again. I'll bet you'll see a huge difference.

Ed J