Trier99
February 19th, 2013, 08:29 PM
I have installed from the "official dvd" for ubuntu 12.10
(I cleared out Slideshow, and installed something to handle
my nvidia drivers called bumblebee, which worked.)
I now have ubuntu/unity and find it so slow as to be unusable.
That's to some extent at least due to my hardware
Athlon 1800 cpu and nvidia GF2 TI
I tried to install gnome and kde desktops, but my terminal
reports those packages could not be found.
Maybe some of the moves I tried have flushed them out, so
to speak?
Will I have to obtain a new dvd or can I obtain what I need via
my gnome terminal, which is the only thing which works?
(my access to the internet seems to go on ok but
without any front end)
Is it just the unity desktop that is slowing it all down, or
do I need an earlier system entirely?
btw my hardware once ran xp windows quite well, including
open office,but was slow in starting up. Nothing like the
current situation.
Trier99
(I cleared out Slideshow, and installed something to handle
my nvidia drivers called bumblebee, which worked.)
I now have ubuntu/unity and find it so slow as to be unusable.
That's to some extent at least due to my hardware
Athlon 1800 cpu and nvidia GF2 TI
I tried to install gnome and kde desktops, but my terminal
reports those packages could not be found.
Maybe some of the moves I tried have flushed them out, so
to speak?
Will I have to obtain a new dvd or can I obtain what I need via
my gnome terminal, which is the only thing which works?
(my access to the internet seems to go on ok but
without any front end)
Is it just the unity desktop that is slowing it all down, or
do I need an earlier system entirely?
btw my hardware once ran xp windows quite well, including
open office,but was slow in starting up. Nothing like the
current situation.
Trier99