[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

[Mark Steffen]

Thanks for the comments Ron and James.  I was surfing trying to find actual
hard data (or someone that did some sort of testing) on memory consumption
for the different window managers/etc. and it seem LXDE came ahead by a
significant margin; gnome and xfce seemed close to tied (which seemed not
credible but who knows).  All of my future Linux installs for desktop
purposes with be Lubuntu (CentOS still my favourite for servers).  :)

*Mark Steffen*
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice write-up Mark! Good to know your findings.
>
> I plan on setting up an older X220 for the in-laws with Ubu 18.04 or Mint
> 19(Tara) when they do the release by month's end.
>
> I am finding that the mouse speed is much too great on the
> trackpoint/trackpad/external usb Logitech(and MS) rodents.
> Tuning the mouse acceleration and speed does nothing in either released
> Ubu 18.04(Mate/Xfce) or Mint 19 Beta(Cinnamon and Mate)
>
> I suppose I can go much about with the mouse tables, but I wonder if
> anyone else has the issue of an ultra-fast mouse? I tried this on a few
> Thinkpads, the X201/X220/T450s, same issue.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:40 PM, <rmarksteffen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Cheap Pentium/Celeron laptops were discussed a while back on the list
>> and I decided to go ahead and get myself one as Canada Computers still
>> had a sale on.
>>
>> I purchased an Acer Swift 1 refurb for $350.  Great little laptop,
>> aluminum case, 13"ish 1080p IPS display.  64GB onboard SSD (but an M.2
>> slot available for expansion) and 4GB RAM (not upgradable).  Pentium
>> N4200 (quad core, non-hyperthread, quicksync, not a speed demon but
>> passive cooling and long battery life).  I can get about 8 hours of
>> typical use approximately (should be solid 8+ hours now).  I've got all
>> my regular apps loaded
>> (evolution/libreoffice/gimp/firefox/chrome/synced mail/documents/a
>> couple ISOs I use regularly) and I'm about 38% full disk, not bad (I
>> have not used the M.2 slot yet).
>>
>> Anyway, I was finding the default Ubuntu 18 to be a little laggy (and
>> taking a lot of memory) so after doing a few basic things like
>> disabling animations and stuff, and still not being happy, I changed to
>> LightDM.  Still using Unity/gnome shell it was better, a little less
>> memory use, but still I felt there should be major room for
>> improvement.  So I switched over to LXDE/openbox/lubuntu.  WOW!!  Much
>> much faster, I can load into ram every app I normally use and then some
>> and still have 2GB of RAM free (not even touching swap).
>>
>> The "lag" is completely gone and everything is very snappy.  (Web
>> browsing in Firefox was never laggy, just general window-managery type
>> functions).  Anyway, I'm sold, this unit is now a very acceptable daily
>> driver.
>>
>> Mark
>>
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