I have installed Ubuntu onto my old Windows Vista laptop but unfortunately it is running very slow. I also live in a region of Germany which has a very poor internet connection and I am unable to download any lightweight distribution as the Ubuntu download took me 6 hours.
I have tried many thing to get Ubuntu to run faster such as installing compizconfig-settings-manager
and disabling the blur in Unity, I also decreased swappiness
to ten, and installed the Preload Daemon. On my desktop performance was increased , however my laptop is still low after these changes. My idea is to remove Unity completely and change my desktop environment to LXDE but I don't know how to do that.
System Specifications:
- Manufacturer : HP
- Model : Compaq 6720s
- Processor : Intel Celeron 550M (Single Core 2.00 GHZ)
- RAM : 2 Gig
- HDD : 160 Gig
- Graphics : Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100 (8-359 MB Shared)
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop