I admit my laptop is from 2011, but it's a dual core AMD 64 and windows and Mint run fairly well on it. I did a fresh install of F25 with Gnome 3.22 and updated first thing. It is SLOW. Web pages, the desktop, and everything is laggy. Are there things I can disable or tweak to improve performance without buying RAM for an aging laptop?
Welcome to ask.fedora. More RAM may well help, but you have to remember that Gnome is a notoriously resource-intensive DE. You'll probably do better with a more lightweight DE such as Enlightenment or Xfce. In any case, you can at least use system-analyze blame to optimize your boot sequence and cut that down.
I'm sure he can live with a long booting time, his problem is a nonresponsive desktop. Graphic driver maybe? Post here your hardware specifications (lspci at least), you might try disabling desktop effects/compositing. I resurrected a much older desktop PC with only 1GB RAM and a low-end gpu (ATI R300 I guess, OpenGL 2.0) which is now running Plasma 5 smoothly (KDE Plasma!!! A notoriously bloated and resource hungry DE....)
Asked: 2017-03-18 11:03:41 -0600
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