In order to run these environments the system needs a more capable graphics adapter — see more here or below: MiB RAM system memory for physical installs. You could try a lighter-weight distro or a minimal install of Ubuntu. The easiest and most effective step towards a minimal install of Ubuntu is to install a lighter-weight Desktop Environment such as Xfce see Xubuntu below , LxDE see Lubuntu officially supported from Visual Effects Visual effects provide various optional special graphical effects for your desktop to make it look and feel more fun and easier to use.
Even if your computer is powerful enough to run visual effects, you can turn them off and will still have a usable Ubuntu desktop system.
Visual effects are turned on by default if you have a GPU graphics card or integrated chipset which is supported. Lightweight GUI alternative Xubuntu and Lubuntu If you have an old or low-spec computer or want to get the most out of your hardware, using a medium-lightweight desktop system such as Xubuntu or a lightweight such as Lubuntu is recommended, as they make more efficient use of your system's resources.
Of course, even if you have the newest equipment out, you could still use these two. While this Debian-based distro is forgiving to Atom processors, its spartan design may not be for everyone. You won't find the eye candy you see in Lubuntu or Linux Mint.
BunsenLabs isn't the only distro to carry CrunchBang's torch, but it does appear to be the most active. If you're feeling adventurous, you can run a rolling release version based on Arch Linux, called ArchBang. Small, fast, and bootable from a variety of storage media, Porteus is an excellent netbook Linux distribution. Note that Porteus is modular, so rather than using a package manager and connecting to the internet during initial installation, Porteus provides pre-compiled modules that you can activate or deactivate before install.
This all comes together in an efficient experience that can boot in under 30 seconds, making Porteus a top version of Linux for netbooks. Want a unique Intel Atom Linux experience? Check out Elive, a very small Linux distro with its own custom desktop environment. A bunch of apps and a few games come preinstalled. They appear on a dock at the bottom of the screen. Elive is not geared for newcomers or enterprise use. Who's it for?
Let the development team tell you:. Elive is not made for experienced people. Elive is not made for enterprises or personal user. Elive is art. It is simply for the people who appreciate it and want to use it. Feel free to try Elive, because only you decide what you want in this world! While it's not clear who live is for, we do know what Elive is for: old or underpowered machines. If your Intel Atom netbook is a secondary computer, why not use it to run software you might be too nervous to run on your main machine?
Consider Bodhi Linux. This small Linux project has been around for years. It doesn't have the manpower you find in larger projects, but it's functional. If you have not tried it yet, learn why you need to and how to install Ubuntu on your Windows 10 PC. If you are new to Ubuntu, you will notice that the desktop is not as fast as Windows. If you are, especially, playing games or videos on your PC or laptop while browsing a few tabs on the web, the system may show signs of lagging.
This is true when you have an old PC that has less powerful resources compared to the modern and sophisticated systems. In this post, you will learn the steps you need to take to make your computer run faster on your laptop. You do not have to execute every tip. Do a few checks on your laptop as necessary to improve the performance without limiting the features, functionality, and appearance of your system. Remember that because the hardware varies from one computer to another, your solution to the slowness of the laptop may not work for another person.
So, you will have to find out what works best for you. This one may seem pretty basic and inefficient. But wait. Sometimes we run the laptops for many days without shutting them down.
For instance, there are times I did not shut mine for many weeks. I play games, do some jobs online, watch videos on YouTube or on the local storage, and use it as a music player in my house. When using the laptop for many hours, we tend to overwork it. The performance may start to go down slowly. The system memory cache and browser caches expire with time, and you will have difficulties loading apps, web pages, and reading filesystem contents.
A reboot will help to clear the memory so that you can start from a fresh memory. If your laptop overheats after hours or days of usage, it is ideal to shut it down completely. Let it cool before you boot Ubuntu again. This helps to ease the CPU so that the system can run smoothly.
Before you reboot your Ubuntu laptop, ensure that you have saved all the files you have open and close any running GUI programs to avoid losing data. In case you are running a program on the terminal that is accessing data on the hard drive, terminate the process as well. Sometimes the GUI desktop may be too laggy to access the menu items. You can shutdown or reboot your laptop from the terminal as well.
The command to enter on the terminal emulator to restart the machine is reboot while shutdown or poweroff will turn the laptop off. If you are running an oil system like computers designed for Windows 7 or earlier versions, then you may be using low RAM on the computer.
For instance, my laptop It dates back to when SATA was a new technology and Windows 7 was a new product in the market. Installing Ubuntu on my PC was a milestone in my dreams. But then I discovered that the system used to lag a lot. With only three tabs open on Firefox, the laptop could stop loading and the browser freeze showing Firefox is not responding.
Every time I had to kill the process from the terminal to release the memory and restart Firefox or run another app. A simple Google search hinted that I may be using a desktop environment that consumes too much RAM space.
And that was true. Ubuntu comes with two or three DEs and Unity is the heaviest of all. But the way I love the Unity dash, I was not ready to remove it.
I had to upgrade the RAM. Conventionally, you can expect that to be sufficient to run your OS smoothly. But again it is not always true. If you are not willing to upgrade your laptop RAM, you may want to take another route. It is not enough to increase your computer RAM for Ubuntu to run smoothly. Swap space is necessary to help relieve the RAM so that you can run more programs without freezing your system. Swap is a special filesystem that Linux uses to write temporary data on the hard disk drive while computing.
Unlike windows that creates its own Swap in a. When booting, the OS will find the Swap and mount it automatically. You cannot open a Swap partition to view files, but the OS uses it to write the data it uses to remember the programs and tasks that you are running on the PC. If you forgot or ignored to create the Swap during the installation process, you can create it manually from your Ubuntu desktop. Here are the steps to create Swap space on Ubuntu.
Gparted, the graphical partition editor, is the only tool you need for this part. The command will install the graphical application GParted you need alongside the software it requires to perform the task, libparted the partition editor library and the text mode application parted. The graphical interface makes it easy to manipulate the drives without having to master and risk with text commands on the terminal.
To run GParted, you can type the gparted command on the Terminal. You do not need to enter the superuser mode in Terminal. When it is loading, it will ask you for your password so that the application can run administrative tasks editing the system drives.
You can also search and find GParted from the dash and click on the icon to launch the program. When you are on the graphical interface, ensure that GParted highlights your current disk on the editor. But you can identify your disk with the size in GiB. If you are unsure, ensure you have disconnected all external drives and refresh the disks.
I will assume that you are using the entire space on your HDD. You can create space for Swap by shrinking a partition Remember that when logged in to Ubuntu, you cannot shrink the partition you installed the OS.
You have to shrink one of the other partitions.
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