I have a Intel Celeron 2ghz dual core laptop, which is exactly the recommended specifications for Ubuntu, but it is a bit sluggish with the default desktop environment(gnome?). So I am looking to make it faster without reinstalling a lighter version of Ubuntu(like kubuntu) as all it does is replace the desktop environment as far as i know. Now I want to make it faster, but I want to keep the default environment as I like how it looks, so is there a way to make the default one faster?
And if that's not possible, which Ubuntu looks the most like default Ubuntu, but is faster?
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and other built-in performance-measuring tools to determine why Ubuntu feels slow on your system? It's very responsive and fast on mine.