Some suggestions from my fellow ubuntuers?

[cespinal]

Hi there.

Im running unity in a fujitsu siemes Amilo Pro from the middle ages. Intersetingly, everything went just right after the install and a couple of updates. I tried Unity 2D and I really do not like it. I have grown used to using screen borders to manage my windows (compiz-only feature), so I really want to keep Unity.

The thing is, CPU is at full capacity almost always. Im using just the default apps (gwibeer, empathy, chromium, evolution, etc). But I would like to take to weight off my poor old laptop's shoulders.

Do you have any advice on how to reduce CPU usage a little... no expecting miracles here tho...

Cheers!

[K_45]

Try Lubuntu or a Debian netinst + XFCE.

[cespinal]

Thanks K...

tried XFCE and LXDE... not a fan of them tho

[cespinal]

Also, restarted the system an it is working now at 14%... with the same programs running...

do you know of any resource hogs in this release?

[K_45]

Chromium (actually, most web browsers) will swallow a lot of space and so will Evolution.

[cespinal]

What about midori?