Ubuntu & speed
2011-02-17 20:53:19.781847+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Apropos of nothing, I was getting annoyed at some of the performance problems I was having on my (soon to be replaced, old) notebook computer. So I tried switching to XFCE as my desktop and window manager, rather than Gnome (+ Enlightenment?). Holy cow! Night and day performance wise. A few things are a little clunky, but overall I'm blown away and no longer have things like the power manager showing up as using hundreds of megabytes.
Also impressive: Switching from Mozilla to Chrome for my primary browser.