Hi!
So I have installed Ubuntu on various laptops before and it has mostly been very ok. Things works, just got to tinker a bit here and there for things to be perfect for me.
Now yesterday I wanted to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my desktop computer. The computer is this:
CPU: Intel i5 4570
Mobo: Asus B85-Plus
GPU: GTX 760
Monitor: BenQ XL2411T 144 Hz monitor
Network adapter: TP-Link TL-WN821N adapter, V4 from the batch
HDD: a 7200 pm. 1 TB drive
So I started installing it on this system and got it installed successfully. I did the restart and got in my system. First thing I notice that new folder and all the applications that Ubuntu has with it at start, launch very slowly compared to laptop. Maybe it is becasue laptop has Ubuntu installed on SSD? But then still the performance hit this gives is ridiculous. Launching a simple application like system settings takes a good 4 seconds or so allready.
So the the next point. WIFI... At first wifi seems really fine, I can connect to my home network and update my system via Terminal without any problems. Infact I downloaded about 1 gb of data via Terminal before I even opened up my browser. Now when I opened up my browser, I was able to visit 2 webpages and then my internet was gone. It showed that I still had connection but nothing really loaded. Even ping google.com did not work in Terminal. I had to restart for this to be fixed. After restart, numerous crash reports appeared saying that ubuntu software center has crashed and what not. Can you belive it, allready stuff crashing after clean install?
So I thought maybe it's about the browser, I uninstall firefox and installed Chomium but still the same deal, I could surf the web in Terminal for ages but once you hit up the browser, connection is gone.
And now to the graphics. At first it was all okay, the Nouveau driver seemed to be really good for regular desktop use. I could see clearly that it was able run it on my 144 Hz monitor, eveything moved smoothly. Now because I wanted to take use of my GPU also, I installed the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I first added the xorg-edgers PPA and then installed the latest driver from there, Restarted and horror began.
First the Ubuntu boot splash is broken after a proprietary driver install. Is this normal? No!! Am I experiencing this alone? NO! Okay, so I get passed that to the desktop, open up a window and try to move it. 60 Hz all over me, things are slow and choppy, scrolling in a folder full of lot of files will cause graphical glitches that were not there before.
So I open up nvidia-settings as sudo and edit my refresh rate to 144 Hz from there. Apply it, save the xorg.conf and restart. Nothing changed, absolutly nothing. So installing a proprietary driver seems to make things even worse it seems?
I mean, I dont even know where I would start with fixing all this madness... So I am asking you guys, is there any point to even try to do this with this kind of hardware? Or should I just pass and stick top laptops with Ubuntu?
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