I have had a rough time installing Ubuntu in my laptop. After changing settings in the BIOS and setting nomodoset, I finally made it. The problem now is that everything is very slow: windows opening and dragging is very slow, the mouse freezes for few moments and then continues normally, etc etc. The problems I am having occur both with Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.04. This problem resembles a bit when I was running heavy processes that used swap memory in my old laptop\ubuntu.
My problem is similar to this one: nvidia's driver loop and Intel's slow in ubuntu 16.04
My laptop: ASUS N552VX-76A95SB1, 16Gb RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M,Intel Core i7 6700HQ
Settings changed in Bios: Disabled Fast Boot, Secure Boot, Enabled Launch CSM & PXE OpROM policy.
Other changes I tried:
- Using several proprietary drivers for the graphic card (378,381,375,384), including the latest (384.69).
setting vm.swappiness=0
Used Compiz: Dragging a window is laggy (windows do not follow the mouse while moving smoothly)
- System monitor shows very little activity, no swap mem being used, less than 1Gb RAM being used. No heavy processes running.
I don't know if the processing speed is slow or not, what I am sure is that the "look and feel" is very very slow.
I have no more ideas, so I kindly ask for your help.
