I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on My old Pc Having 2GB Ram Pentium 4 Processor 3.04Ghz 6GB Swap But still it works very slow like Hell. If I install Gnome Classic Then It will Be fast Or Not?
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What Desktop you are going to compare with Gnome, what do you have now? Gnome is faster than KDE.– Ruslan GerasimovAug 5, 2014 at 9:05
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Bro It is unity now.– user311066Aug 5, 2014 at 9:19
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I'm assuming you are using Ubuntu with the default Unity desktop. If you are then in my experience Gnome Classic desktop is significantly faster.– Warren HillAug 5, 2014 at 9:20
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Related (but probably not a duplicate, unless more information is added to answers there, more answers are posted, or answers from here are merged): How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements?, What is the difference between Ubuntu and its derivatives?– Eliah KaganOct 9, 2014 at 19:31
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I assume you want to compare with the Unity desktop? Changing to Gnome Classic will improve it a little. If you want to have a lightweight desktop environment, I suggest trying Xfce (http://www.xfce.org/). This is the default desktop environment for the Xubuntu releases.
You can install it on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
for Ubuntu branding or
the original Xfce desktop:
sudo apt-get install xfce4
(Source: How can I install XFCE along side unity?)
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i dont have much internet to download whole xubuntu. if i install it in ubuntu 14.04 n delete unity .. will it be faster n smooth? Aug 5, 2014 at 9:26
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That is also an option. It depends on what you expect/need from a desktop environment and from your own habits and taste. Aug 5, 2014 at 9:27
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@user311066: You should only install the Xfce desktop using one of the two commands above. You do not even have to remove unity in order to test it, so you will be able to switch back easily if necessary. There should not be a measurable difference with installing Xubuntu with the same setup. After all Xubuntu's main feature is an Ubuntu system with by default XFCE in stead of Unity on top of it. Aug 5, 2014 at 9:29
Probably yes. But CPU and RAM has nothing to do with it. Unity is expecting 3D to work very good, and I suppose you have some video card without supported 3D. Anyway, instead of Gnome you should better step forward and try Xfce. You will have more features for less resources, without compositing window manager. Consider this.
answered Aug 5, 2014 at 9:21
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
then you will probably find something interesting in compiz, like Static Application Switcher, if needed:
sudo apt-get install ccsm
sudo apt-get install compiz-plugins-extra
ccsm
answered Aug 5, 2014 at 9:27
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I Have Decided To Install LXDE Environment on Ubuntu 14.04 .. Does It wll Become Fast? Or In Order To Make Ot Fast i need To remove unity? Aug 5, 2014 at 10:06
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