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I bought a new Dell Inspiron: laptop.

Processor: i5-6300HQ          
HDD: 230GB 5400RPM                  
RAM: 8GB 
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5

I am dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 15.10. For some reason Ubuntu appears to be running very slowly, even slower than when I used Ubuntu on my dual core 4GB RAM laptop. Is there anything I can do about this? I am already running the version 352.63 NVIDIA graphics driver. I installed it from the Ubuntu Software Center's Additional drivers tab.

It takes a lot of time to boot and also the applications take too long to open and respond slowly.

Attaching a screenshot from SMART test.

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Is the problem only related to slow hard drive, or is it because of some other reason too?

karel
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Himanshu Jain
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  • How is it slow exactly ? Boot time ? HDD read/write ? CPU time ? Graphics rendering ? Saying it is slow helps no one understand your issue, please update your question with what exactly is slow about it. – Mark Kirby Dec 23 '15 at 11:40
  • sorry for being vague.just edited the question again. I think the problem is little bit more than the slow hdd. because i was using the same hdd in my old laptop and ubuntu was working just fine. Could this problem be because of Skylake processor support for ubuntu. – Himanshu Jain Dec 25 '15 at 07:45
  • Is the fan spinning and CPU frequency as expected? You can install cpufrequtils and run cpufreq-info to check. (I have fan and overheating problems, which I usually only notice when the machine slows down!) – joeytwiddle Dec 25 '15 at 08:27
  • yes my fan is constantly running. I read in one of the posts that GRUB command line "quiet splash" controls the fan speed. But due to some issues with my Nvidia GTX 960 I removed that line and used "nomodeset" . Can that be the problem and can i do something to resolve this. – Himanshu Jain Dec 25 '15 at 11:29

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