Post your system specs and tell us if you Ubuntu desktop is sluggish.

[PrimoTurbo]

I wonder if we can figure out a pattern on why the Linux GUI feels sluggish on certain hardware, post your system specs, system setup and weather the Graphic User Interface (desktop environment) feels slow or sluggish when rendering Windows, Icons, etc…

P4 1.6Ghz
768 DDR RAM
WD 250GB HD
ATI 9700 Pro 128MB

Default Ubuntu Gnome Feisty Fawn 7.04 setup with ATI restricted driver, a separate login with XGL-Beryl but I use the desktop with out Beryl most of the time.

The rendering of windows and response time is slow, if I drag a window and watch CPU Usage % it jumps up to nearly 100%.

[igknighted]

See sig, not sluggish at all

[mech7]

it's not sluggish at all with me.. but then again your hardware is kinda old.

[use a name]

AMD XP1800+, 1Gb ram, NVidia FX5500 -> KDE

Snappy

P-II 350 MHz, 128MB ram, some video card... -> XFCE

Quite responsive

[PrimoTurbo]

it's not sluggish at all with me.. but then again your hardware is kinda old.

My hardware has no problem running Windows Vista, and is above the requirements of what Gnome needs.

[PriceChild]

primoturbo you are using xgl...

[stalker145]

My systems... Nothing to speak of for slow response times.

Laptop

Micron TransPort GX2

P3 1.0Ghz 133 FSB
512K L2 cache
512MB SODIMM 133 FSB
20GB ATA100 4200rpm
Integrated ATI Mobility Radeon 16MB shared video

Running Gnome on Ubuntu 7.04

Presently running restricted wireless driver, USP, conky, lots of themed stuff, blah, blah.

No slow-downs unless I'm downloading massive amounts or encoding music.

Server/Desktop

Self-built

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
1MB L2 cache
768MB PC2100
60GB ATA133
160GB ATA133 x2
400GB ATA133
nVidia GeForce FX5200 128MB video

Running Gnome on Ubuntu 6.06

Presently running multiple servers and one VM.

No slow-downs unless encoding movies or downloading massive amounts.

[justin whitaker]

You need an "r" in that title, pilgrim. It should be "Tell us if YOUR Ubuntu....."

Now that grammar nazi minute is over...

Emachines T6212
AMD 3200+ (2.2ghz)
1gb Ram
250GB Western Digital HD
Nvidia 6600 LE (256MB) card
ATI XP soundcard.

Gnome, Feisty 7.04, no noticeable lags on the system, and I use it for World or Warcraft, Guild Wars, Counterstrike Source, etc.

[jcconnor]

My specs:

Compaq P4 1 Ghz
1 Gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 5500 PCI video card
2 70Gb HDD
3 GB Swap (probably more than I need but what the heck)

My machine is so fast that it makes my eyes bleed some times.

I have to look away from time to time to stop my molecules from splitting apart it's so fast.

If it were any faster it would be in another time zone and I would have to keep resetting the clock.

Sometimes, my machine opens programs and launches web sites as I'm thinking about them.

Can't get much faster than that.

John

[use a name]

My specs:

Compaq P4 1 Ghz
1 Gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 5500 PCI video card
2 70Gb HDD
3 GB Swap (probably more than I need but what the heck)

My machine is so fast that it makes my eyes bleed some times.

I have to look away from time to time to stop my molecules from splitting apart it's so fast.

If it were any faster it would be in another time zone and I would have to keep resetting the clock.

Sometimes, my machine opens programs and launches web sites as I'm thinking about them.

Can't get much faster than that.

John

Not to forget the reading of forum posts and replying to them. BIG time saver.