I upgraded to Ubuntu 14 and it seems im lagging. I started playing a 2d rpg game on steam and my whole pc is a bit sluggish. I read that I should use xubuntu or something. I'm on an intel HD processor with 3.12 GHz and 4gb ram. I'm running Ubuntu alone (no VM) what do I do to get this speed back up?
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in a terminal while you do some normal tasks. What are the processes that hog the most CPU percentage (except your applications)? If it iscompiz
you're better off with a lightweight DE like xfce. I recently changed to it and my system feels ways faster now.