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i installed ubuntu 13.10 on my dell inspiron 5520 and this is my first experience with ubuntu or any OS other than windows..

the system starts up normally and functions although it seemsto be slower than win 8.1 (thats not much of an issue though) but once the fan starts running it wont stop untill i shut down the laptop. this is the only major issue i have with ubuntu

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  • Why 13.10 and not 14.04?
    – TuKsn
    May 29, 2014 at 10:18

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One thing I would check would be the load of the system (as this is usually the case when the fan revs up), fire up a terminal and type:

uptime

To read more about the load values, see for example this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21617500/understanding-load-average-vs-cpu-usage

If it seems high, you might also wanna dig deeper into the top command:

top 

and even checking all the process, with

ps -aux 

trying to pinpoint if there are applications running hot.

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