introduction

[Jude DaShiell]

On the old tower, for talkingarchlinux I had to download another package 
so talkingarchlinux would use both cores when needed.  It would be 
helpful if these graphical systems would take advantage of dual cores 
and quad cores when available.  I installed gnome and think the most the 
old tower will handle will be mate in future.  Hitting alt-f1 brings up 
an empty window or what sounds like an empty window on gnome.

However, I did get wifi up and working on gnome that's similar to unity 
at least where I find the hidden wifi network button.  Even with the 
empty window hitting first letters of  options opened those options up 
and got me to computer hardware and network then I tabbed to vpn and hit 
cancel button and tabbed past use as hot spot and found use hideen wifi 
network button and went in there and answered questions and hit connect 
and I was good to go.

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016, kendell clark wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:33:10
> From: kendell clark <coffeekingms at gmail.com>
> To: B. Henry <burt1iband at gmail.com>, ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: introduction
> 
> hi
> One thing I've noticed about mate, and probably other desktops as well,
> is that they seem to have some kind of algorithm for measuring how much
> ram a system has and adjusting how they use ram accordingly. On my
> system, which has 8 gb of it, mate isn't all that resource efficient in
> the ram department, usually idling at around 700 to 800 mb used.
> However, on my mac and on mellisa's toshiba, mate idles at around 350 mb
> used, and there's zero difference in performance. Gnome and unity
> probably do the same thing, but they also use more effects so can be a
> little heavier on the system. The biggest problem with unity and gnome
> is, my opinion only, cpu usage. They use up a lot of the cpu cycles if
> you have a slow one, and that can make the thing feel sluggish or
> unresponsive. It's why I switched from gnome to mate on my mac, gnome
> did not like my mac much.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
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> B. Henry wrote:
>> It is something specific to your system if mate term is faster. It's as close to the same thing as is possible, was actually the exact same size, and
>> had 0 differences one time when I dcompared.
>> Thunderbird  works perfectly with unity. It sounds like something is messed up, corrupted or badly configured if you are having the problems mentiioned,
>> Jude.
>> Gnome is notably lighter than unity when it comes to RAM usage.
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