Linux is a little slow ?

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:15 pm

I've got the drivers set up correctly, it shows ATi Radeon 9550, not mesa... It's the architecture that it's unusually slow... On other better cards was the same... I know it sound strange but it's true...

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Still, on Nvidia GeForce 6600 was the same speed... Slow.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:43 pm

Just a side note: I am sure I had the correct drivers installed.

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:07 pm

You have a very strange experience then... my window resizing and indeed much more was butter smooth on my old ati 9800, hell even my laptops ati 7500 worked just fine...

sorry you've had such a bad experience. But its not like windows doesnt have similar problems on a similar amount of computers.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:11 pm

Maybe I'm overreacting a bit, but it's noticeable. However, i'll never quit using Linux

. It's really cool, and i can say that Ubuntu is the most suitable for my computing needs. Maybe in the future it will be improved...

Oh, and just a little question... How can I stop that annoying animation when minimizing windows in ubuntu?

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:58 pm

Hmm. I'm pretty sure its just in the control center under appearance. I assume you're talking about the sliding down to the window bar effect?

I tend to not use Gnome much. I prefer KDE and Fluxbox

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:01 pm

Inf0Byt3 wrote:Oh, and just a little question... How can I stop that annoying animation when minimizing windows in ubuntu?

I'm pretty sure you can't. (Unless you change window manager or there is some secret configuration option that I don't know of.)

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:43 pm

Inf0Byt3 wrote:Oh, and just a little question... How can I stop that annoying animation when minimizing windows in ubuntu?

You can do the following at the prompt:

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gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/panel/global/enable_animations "False"
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/interface/enable_animations "False"

Works on my Dapper install at home but not on my Breezy install.

-Beach

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:27 pm

Thank you, going to check this... Rebooting

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Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:41 pm

It worked perfectly

. Thank you.

WishMaster · Post by **WishMaster** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:54 pm

Inf0Byt3 wrote:Rebooting .

You really don't have to reboot...

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:32 pm

Oh, I know

. I meant I must reboot to enter Linux (I was on windows).

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:56 am

Hehehe

I was gonna say... no wonder you don't like Linux much! (jk)

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:05 am

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:14 am

Trond wrote:
That isn't very interesting for the average Joe but can be used to perform really cool things windows wouldn't be capable of.
Like?

Well you can stream windows over the network, it's slower but better quality than vnc and also works even when the mashine running the graphical app isn't able to run a X-Server. Let me give an example: once I converted PureWinLin to run on VMWare Player, it ran a lot faster than on qemu but the X-Server wouldn't work, so I used cygwin, a ssh tunnel and opened the purebasic ide over this ssh tunnel on the host mashine running the cygwin X-Server, therefor I could work with the Linux IDE on Windows alot faster than I could have done using qemu. i know this is a very uncommon way to use these features but they can really be usefull.

u9 · Post by u9 » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:36 pm

This is probably said before, but Linux uses as much memory as possible (memory not used is just a waist.) Memory is used for cache to make the most of the available memory. So 90% memory used should make you happy

You know you're getting your money's worth

If applications need memory some is taken from the cache. It's not a problem.

Inf0Byt3, if you use Ubuntu you need to add the Universe (I think it's called) repository as the Nvidia drivers aren't in the regular repository. I'm not sure if you're using Nvidia or ATI.

I installed Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) on my laptop with an Nvidia Go 6600. The windowing system was very slow until I found the Nvidia drivers in the Universe repository. You should see an Nvidia splash-screen when booting into the X-window system if the correct Nvidia drivers are installed.

After installing the Nvidia drivers I see no noticable difference between Windows and Ubuntu. I can even play 3D games now

not that there are that many useful games on Linux I'm afraid. Does anyone where to find any free good-quality games for linux? Or are they completely non-existent?

Regarding ATI I have no idea