On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I upgraded my brother's PC from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 and it turns out
> to have been very disappointing, so much so that he downgraded
> (luckily upgrading was by replacing a drive, so he could just pop the
> old drive back in). Everybody in his house was complaining that it was
> unusably slow. The hardware is an Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 2GHz
> with 2gB RAM and an Intel 82G33/G31 graphics chip. This is not exactly
> state of the art hardware but its performance with Ubuntu 10.10 was
> satisfactory while 12.04 is not.
>> Can anybody hazard a guess as to what the issue is? Has there been
> that much reduction in performance of the kernel / X server ?
Was he using the Unity desktop? The performance of regular Unity can be
terrible on systems without 3D acceleration, in which case selecting
Unity-2D instead (on the login screen) can pretty much fix it.
Andrew
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