<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Honestly I never even looked to see what I have for a graphics card. This is my wife's old laptop, I bought her a Macbook and took her machine over. I've since added an SSD and maxed out the ram at 8 gigs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I'll poke around at it a bit, I'm sure there is more I can do, right now I have bigger fish to fry.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Rich</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Richard Kolb II</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rozzin@hackerposse.com" target="_blank">rozzin@hackerposse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote:<br>
> Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary<br>
> machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised<br>
> me considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my<br>
> 14.x LTS machine.<br>
<br>
</span>Does it perhaps have a worse graphics card--or perhaps even just<br>
a _worse-supported_ graphics card? Bottlenecks can be<br>
at the near end just as well as they can be at the far end....<br>
<br>
I had that problem when I upgraded Debian and got GNOME 3<br>
a few years ago--"it" just started seeming to crawl along...,<br>
so I finally upgraded from my 3dfx Voodoo 3 board to a Radeon<br>
and then everything was _much better_.<br>
<br>
In that case, "it" turned out to not by my CPU or RAM or<br>
HDD or anything further away from me than the display system.<br>
<br>
(I may actually be mixing up the overly-specific details of<br>
this upgrade story with from slightly longer ago, and<br>
therefor exaggerating slightly: I may have actually have<br>
already upgraded from the Voodoo 3 to a Radeon 9250 PCI card<br>
a year two prior to that and then finally realised that I<br>
could upgrade by just pulling the 9250 out and using the<br>
motherboard's inbuilt Radeon RS480 because the upgraded Xorg<br>
finally had support for that. But either way the story is<br>
*qualitatively* the same--and frankly I prefer it the way<br>
I originally remembered it :))<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."<br>
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