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Yesterday I've installed a 64bit Ubuntu 14.04 on my Acer AO722 because I wanted to change from my Win8.

I can't imagine why but it runs slowly. I have to wait a lot for launching an app or just opening my files and about every second window that is sent by something from the system starts freezing (eg. system settings, folder properties...), it gets dark for a while then it comes back and that's when I can start to work with it.

The laptop has 4Gb RAM an AMD C60 dual-core 1.333ghz processor, and an AMD Radeon 6250 i think. In the system settings Ubuntu says "Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM". The system is on a 100Gb partition.

What can be the problem with it?

cyrfandli
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Your Acer Aspire One 722 netbook has no discrete graphics processor, so your AMD C60 dual-core 1.333GHz processor has to do all the graphics processing using the integrated AMD Radeon HD 6290 graphics processor. Ubuntu's Unity desktop is too heavy for your CPU and it's slowing your operating system down. You would get better performance if you installed an Ubuntu flavor with a lightweight desktop environment, either Xubuntu or Lubuntu. Lubuntu looks clunky like Windows XP, but it is even more lightweight than Xubuntu in case Xubuntu is also too slow.

Because the choice is down to Xubuntu vs. Lubuntu, hopefully someone who has had experience with a similar processor to yours will be able answer the question of whether Xubuntu would run OK on your netbook.

karel
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