Lubuntu - so fast :O

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

WOW

It is so fast in boot up after POST - 5-6 seconds.

jaw-drop

[Version Dependency]

Lubuntu has rescued several really old machines for me. I have 12.04 running on two machines that are a decade old now.

[Feathers McGraw]

WOW

It is so fast in boot up after POST - 5-6 seconds.

jaw-drop


Perhaps it's time I tried it too! What are you running it on?

[speedwell68]

I have to say that under Lubuntu my 7 year old laptop is as quick as you like

[Algus]

I've been really interested in buying some low end computer and giving Lubuntu a spin on it to see what kind of performance I get. I'm such a big Xfce fan though that I'm afraid I'd get annoyed by the desktop.

[speedwell68]

You can make it look quite sweet to...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/Speedwell68/2013-04-11-142612_1360x768_scrot.png

[mips]

I've been really interested in buying some low end computer and giving Lubuntu a spin on it to see what kind of performance I get. I'm such a big Xfce fan though that I'm afraid I'd get annoyed by the desktop.

LXDE is really no lighter than XFCE. It's all dependant on how a distro packages it and the bloat they incorporate. http://blog.xfce.org/2012/05/questions-after-the-4-10-release/

If your an Ubuntu user use the minimal/netinstall image and add XFCE. It's nothing like Xubuntu.

[GameX2]

You can make it look quite sweet to...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/Speedwell68/2013-04-11-142612_1360x768_scrot.png

Really cool !

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

Perhaps it's time I tried it too! What are you running it on?
Hello!

Well, this one in particular has 3770K and SSD Vertex3 on Sata3
DDR3 2channel on medium 1600MHz (but max-ed out for CPU by default)

I tried RAID0 with SSDx2 and with latest Fedora Beta, but speed wasnt anything to mark out.

Now im stumbling on GRUB time-out "problem" (thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2134683)) , that rises boot time without input to 300% of original. da*n it!

boot, in comparsion
5sec with Lubuntu,
with win7 on Vertex4 SSD (should be slightly faster hard-drive) it was about ~18 seconds, AFTER the POST. So, thats why the jaw-drop when I saw LXDE in action.

Sorry if anyone had hoped me to say "jaw-drop" to decade old rig. :)
Im sure key to fast boot up here is SSD, so no IDE & HDD.

...but
I also have one (lets say scavenged and resoldered) 8-9 year old rig AMD Athlon1800+ with HDD and DDR1 - it runs faster than with XP SP2.
With Linux I had to deal with obsolescent graphic-cards, dirver problems etc. You can look here my old thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2114832) about that (it has photos also :D).But this old rig helped to rise trust for Ubuntu in general.
It didnt make me to exactly jaw-drop, but made me very happy, after week of man-hours.

LK

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

I have to say that under Lubuntu my 7 year old laptop is as quick as you like
I would put (L)ubuntu on every computer, if you ask me! :)
I would even do it for free, like charity or something!

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

LXDE is really no lighter than XFCE. It's all dependant on how a distro packages it and the bloat they incorporate. http://blog.xfce.org/2012/05/questions-after-the-4-10-release/

If your an Ubuntu user use the minimal/netinstall image and add XFCE. It's nothing like Xubuntu.
So ...
you say that Xubuntu is even more lighter! Oh, Im getting greedy! :D

[mips]

So ...
you say that Xubuntu is even more lighter! Oh, Im getting greedy! :D

No. Xubuntu is heavier than Lubuntu. What I said is XFCE is no heavier than LXDE, I'm referring to DEs and not distros. How a distro implements lxde & xfce determines how heavy it's going to be.

[tjeremiah]

does it still idle at 90mb RAM usage? I remember I tried it on a netbook I think a couple of years ago now and that little Ram usage was awesome at the time.

[Zerochilli]

Speedwell How did you get that looking like that :O

(New to lubuntu)

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

It is so fast in boot up after POST - 5-6 seconds.
what hdd?
here is my xubuntu 13.04 bootchart (using laptop, see signature)
http://imgur.com/M6CurN3 (386.62 KB)

[darrenn]

So ...
you say that Xubuntu is even more lighter! Oh, Im getting greedy! :D

I have to agree about the speed it's excellent. If you don't want to get your hands dirty configuring this and that. Just install and go. It's even surprisingly fast on a usb drive. Works great on my six year old laptop.

[Elfy]

Thread moved to Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat.

[Locus Kiesselbachi]

does it still idle at 90mb RAM usage? I remember I tried it on a netbook I think a couple of years ago now and that little Ram usage was awesome at the time.
no, more like 300mb