Rizlaw
October 14th, 2010, 07:12 PM
I've been a relatively happy user of Ubuntu since 6.10, but 10.10 has left me cold and ticked off. I've installed Ubuntu enough times to know what I'm doing, and I can usually fix Canonical's generally minor mistakes on my own or with a little forum help.:)
I've never been completely successful with "upgrade-manger -d", and yet I try it every time just to see if it will ever work 100%. I think not. My upgrade from 10.04.1 to 10.10 took several hours longer than normal and when finished I rebooted into the most sluggish version of Ubuntu I ever used. Everything was totally slow and my OC'd i7 920 cpu was running at 80%+ with no apps running except for default system processes. According to system monitor, "gnome system monitor" was hogging most of my cpu cycles. I then installed the Nvidia driver and upon reboot was met with a terminal prompt to log in! No pretty gui log in screen. I let the cursor blink to see what would happen and after about 1-2 minutes or so the system decided it was going to display a gui log in screen and I was able to log in. Now, with the Nvidia driver, everything was even slower! I couldn't believe it.
After this pain, I decided on a clean install (my /home is on a separate partition). I downloaded, checksumed and burned a 32 bit and 64 bit version of 10.10 and did separate clean installs of each. They both gave me the exact same molasses responsiveness.
I then perused this forum, to find that other are complaining of similar problem of slowness for many different reasons. I also understand there is a know problem with anyone using a Display port type monitor (I don't).
Anyway, I then downloaded and installed Linux Mint LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It installed in about 15 minutes with no issues and I have to say it's lightning fast and with a little more work will be a Distro to reckon with. I really like the concept of a "rolling release" that you install once and get continually upgraded without having to go through an often buggy repeated 6 month release cycle for the latest software. There's simply not enough time/money/personnel at Canonical to do this well on a 6 month cycle, IMO. Unfortunately, Mint LMDE still needs work and had enough issues for me that I decided to reinstall 10.04.1 LTS.
After 3 days of major annoyance I'm back where I began and I think I'm going to skip 10.10 altogether; or, at least, until Canonical explains what's causing some of us to experience this super slow performance problem with 10.10. I know it not me or my hardware.
I've never been completely successful with "upgrade-manger -d", and yet I try it every time just to see if it will ever work 100%. I think not. My upgrade from 10.04.1 to 10.10 took several hours longer than normal and when finished I rebooted into the most sluggish version of Ubuntu I ever used. Everything was totally slow and my OC'd i7 920 cpu was running at 80%+ with no apps running except for default system processes. According to system monitor, "gnome system monitor" was hogging most of my cpu cycles. I then installed the Nvidia driver and upon reboot was met with a terminal prompt to log in! No pretty gui log in screen. I let the cursor blink to see what would happen and after about 1-2 minutes or so the system decided it was going to display a gui log in screen and I was able to log in. Now, with the Nvidia driver, everything was even slower! I couldn't believe it.
After this pain, I decided on a clean install (my /home is on a separate partition). I downloaded, checksumed and burned a 32 bit and 64 bit version of 10.10 and did separate clean installs of each. They both gave me the exact same molasses responsiveness.
I then perused this forum, to find that other are complaining of similar problem of slowness for many different reasons. I also understand there is a know problem with anyone using a Display port type monitor (I don't).
Anyway, I then downloaded and installed Linux Mint LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It installed in about 15 minutes with no issues and I have to say it's lightning fast and with a little more work will be a Distro to reckon with. I really like the concept of a "rolling release" that you install once and get continually upgraded without having to go through an often buggy repeated 6 month release cycle for the latest software. There's simply not enough time/money/personnel at Canonical to do this well on a 6 month cycle, IMO. Unfortunately, Mint LMDE still needs work and had enough issues for me that I decided to reinstall 10.04.1 LTS.
After 3 days of major annoyance I'm back where I began and I think I'm going to skip 10.10 altogether; or, at least, until Canonical explains what's causing some of us to experience this super slow performance problem with 10.10. I know it not me or my hardware.