Should I go back to 9.04 or 9.10?

I tried 9.04 and everything felt snappy, the same with 9.10 except I had issues with my nvidia card I didn't have with 9.04

I tried 10.4 and my Vostro feels laggy even navigating in the UI. The specs are in my sig. Any ideas why?

 

thats odd... i didnt see any difference between 9.10 and 10.04. the only thing is 9.10 seemed to boot a little faster.

And i have an 8600M and no problems here strange...

 

I think it's related to the nvidia drivers on my 8400m GS. If I boot off of the CD or don't install the restricted drivers everything feels fine. Once I install either the recommended or version 173 Nvidia drivers the GUI runs sluggish. I notice it when clicking on the pull down menus. I can see a slight lag and then the icons load.

Without the Nvidia drivers or if I boot off of the CD there is absolutely no delay. It's a shame because i'm new to Linux but I really like the slight changes to 10.4 but I don't want to use it like that other than not using 3D drivers.

 

I'd recommend Jaunty 9.04. That's what I'm using, and it's just rock-solid and really optimal for my setup. And I have a Vostro 1400 with the 8400M GS. I tried 9.10 and there were several hardware issues (broken Hibernation, no SD card support, and no significant improvements. I haven't tried 10.04 yet, although it looks good.

Cheers...

 

Did you upgrade to Lucid or do a clean install? I've never had good luck with the upgrade process. Always try, but ultimately end up doing a clean install. Helps that I set everything to a different mount point though.

 

9.10. I'm going to return to 9.10 as 10.04 is really slow, and personally don't like it.

 

I wanted to like 10.4 but I can't take the sluggishness in the UI. I tried going back to 9.04 and couldn't because I liked 10.4 so much. Looks like it requires a better laptop specs than what's on my Vostro 1500.

Clean install several times. I thought I goofed by selecting my ext4 partition as logical since Windows 7 was my primary. So I went back zeroed out the partition with Killdisk. Reinstalled this time making my /partition as primary and gave it a 1.5GB swap file. It's still sluggish. Sometimes it gets snappy but most of the time is like waking thru knee deep mud with combat boots. Sometimes I notice there's even a lag when I place my cursor on a drop down menu and switch to a new submenu pick. I can actually watch the icons fill, that's how sluggish it is. I even tried installing the Nvidia drivers and pretty much the same thing.

Well it makes me feel better I wasn't imaging things as others have noticed that too.

What's weird is I thought 10.4 would be more responsive and should be over Windows 7 on my hardware. I was wrong as Windows 7 feels very snappy and Ubuntu 10.4 is not.

 

This is what I found too.

 

Have you considered trying out Mint? It's a little dumbed down and at times annoying compared to Ubuntu, but it feels a little faster on my netbook (low end for sure!)

 

I would recommend trying out Mint, I have not tried it, but have heard good things about it, like woofer00 said. I'm actually going to try it in a VM today or tomorrow.

BTW, here's the link; Main Page - Linux Mint

 

Thanks, I wanted to d/l it but there's no connection to their torrent.

edit: Still no connection to the tracker but my port is open and i'm d/l'ing.

 

Wow, Mint smokes Ubuntu 10.4 in many ways from a noob's POV. First off it's GUI is similar to Windows XP. It's GUI is crisp and very snappy, unlike the trudge fest with 10.4 and what I can't figure out is Mint 9 is built from U10.4, go figure.

Out of the box tons of stuff is installed and supported for noob's, MP3, MP4, MOV etc is supported. I was getting IO errors when restarting after the install of U10.4, no such issues with Mint 9. Both U10.4 and Mint 9 boot equally as fast maybe 10.4 is a little quicker. Mint 9 found everything on my Vostro 1500 including my Dell Wireless card, sweet.

Too bad i'm not a NY Jets fan because suddenly Green is becoming my favorite color.

If I can get some of my Windows casual games to work in Mint 9, I may go Mint all the way.

 

Sweet. You obviously like Mint. I may install it on my laptop!

 

I think Mint 9 is about as good as it gets....I'm using the gnome x64 with dual monitors right now.....this vostro 1220 laptop with Mint is faster than my Dell Precision m6500 w/ Win 7 x64 in my sig....now that just shouldn't be !!

 

trying out mint on the asus tonight...might be a keeper it seems.

 

cool....I haven't put linux on the Precision yet.....it's just a matter of time....

 

i wont do that until I upgrade the HD, but even then who knows. Most linux stuff I do is network oriented and a 10 lbs laptop isn't necessary for that, but I do plan to test out the different CAD options in linux and that might change my mind.

 

I definitely prefer Mint's customizations over the barebones OS that is Ubuntu. Part of this is due to Canonical's insistence on not distributing packages that require a license. If you look at the Mint varieties even within isadora, the packages differ based on region because of legal restrictions on those licenses. It's fine for the end-user to add all the stuff on, but the GPL has special rules for distribution that are easier to just sidestep than try to incorporate.

Mint sometimes oversimplifies things, but it's easy enough to add back on things like the disk utility and usb-creator.

 

I'm still running Jaunty, which I really like, but I was thinking about installing Lucid. But you guys make Mint 9 sound really good; however, I do like the barebones feel of Ubuntu.

Hmmm. Now I'm not sure what to do.

 

I'm an ultra noob and Mint 9 is freaking awesome. Noobs can spot a good thing because while Ubuntu is lacking Mint 9 doesn't. It feels like a full featured OS which noobs like instead of being teased and trying to learn at the same time.

I have my weather applet on one of my panels with Weather Channel Radar updates.I can listen to Internet radio, watch TV, play MP3/MP4/MOV files etc. The power management while not as advanced as Windows 7 or Vista does a decent job. And it looks better than Ubuntu 10.4 but it's much faster out of the box.

I say go for it.

Noob, signing out !

 

I should probably clarify a little on the "barebone OS" thing. Mint bundles in useful tools that make the very basic operations a simple matter. A clean install of Mint is basically the state of Ubuntu that I get to about an hour, hour and a half AFTER a clean install, minus the uber handy tool that is Mint-Install. So much faster than the package manager system. You still have access to all the ubuntu repositories since Mint is really just a nicer front end on Ubuntu that's a bit snappier.

 

Well, I kind of like the learning curve. I started out as a noob and gradually worked my way from occasionally booting Ubuntu to now rarely ever booting Windows. Customizing is what I like about Ubuntu, and why I'm trying to run Arch.

Huh. Well, I may give the LiveCD a try. My hesitation would be if it's already customized some way I don't like it. But Zoid's and your recommendations makes me want to check it out.