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I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 on my machine.

It's an average home configuration, and I use it for web development too.

  • 4GB DDR2
  • 300 GB HDD
  • 2,2Ghz Dual core
  • Nvidia 8600GT GPU

Ubuntu boots very fast, much faster than Windows... and uses much less RAM than Windows, but damn man, Ubuntu is laggy as hell, it is nowhere near as smooth as Windows.
Firefox is slow as hell, it works but not nicely like on Windows. I know that Linux is made for servers, but UI is just awful. I don't want my Linux to look fancy like a brand new Mac, I just want it t run as smooth as Windows does. Any tips?

Edit: Here is my output from terminal when run lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] [10de:0402] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: CardExpert Technology Device [10b0:1401]
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:167a] (rev 02)
djuro djuric
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  • No man, just no! – djuro djuric Jun 29 '17 at 07:34
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    It usually helps to switch to a community flavour with a light desktop environment. The same Ubuntu engine is humming under the hood. See this link, https://askubuntu.com/questions/930118/ubuntu-12-04-lts-updates/930165#930165 – sudodus Jun 29 '17 at 07:34
  • I guess that avoiding problem is not solution... thanks anyway.. – djuro djuric Jun 29 '17 at 07:36
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    I think the problem is that the desktop environment 'Unity' of standard Ubuntu needs quite modern hardware for the graphics, and I don't know any better solution than to replace it with another desktop environment or replace the hardware (a new graphics card). Replacing the HDD with an SSD might speed things up too, but hardware costs money, and you can try the community flavours of Ubuntu for free. – sudodus Jun 29 '17 at 07:43
  • Which graphics driver are you using? Could you please [edit] your question to include the output of the terminal command lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA? Thanks. – David Foerster Jun 29 '17 at 10:42
  • Hi David, I have edited my question. – djuro djuric Jun 29 '17 at 10:49
  • You are using the free 'nouveau' graphics driver. Maybe it will work better with a proprietary nvidia driver according to this link, https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2242665&p=13114351#post13114351, it is worth trying. Good luck :-) – sudodus Jun 29 '17 at 11:44

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Try to check running service. You can use bum

sudo apt-get install bum

sudo bum

and look for un-needed service you can stop.

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