All right, I just can't figure this out. First, the hardware:
733MHz Celeron
192MB PC-133
Intel IGP
40GB IDE HDD
I set up Windows XP on this computer for a family about two years ago. It ran decently. Not great, but running Windows Classic theme, it was enough to browse the internet and word process. After they trashed this machine with Spyware and Viruses (it was bad...really bad), they got a new Dell. I'm trying to fix this machine up for some people in Mexico. I figured Linux should run faster than Windows, yeah? So I stuck Xubuntu 8.04 on there.
Oh man, it's slow. I mean REALLY slow. Everything just crawls. Takes 5 minutes to boot, Firefox takes a minute to load, Update Manager takes forever just to check for updates, scrolling web pages is a slideshow, and it's just all-around slow. Something has to be wrong here. I'm not too versed in all this Ubuntu stuff (I'm a Red Hat guy myself), but surely there's something configured wrong here. It just doesn't make sense that Windows XP would be faster than Linux with Xfce.
Any help?
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