Ubuntu 13.04 Suffers Performance

[Ric Moore]

On 06/25/2013 09:56 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 25 June 2013 14:19, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Same here. I had my 2.3Ghz dual core Macbook Pro nicked and had to revert to
>> a similar spec Lenovo T61 on which I installed Ubuntu 13.04. Considering the
>> price of replacing the Macbook Pro, I toyed with the idea of buying a
>> Thinkpad and switching to Ubunutu but the abysmal performance of Ubuntu put
>> paid to that fantasy. Compiz and Thunderbird were the main cpu hogs. I tried
>> throttling TB with cpulimit but that made it unusable.
>>
>> I use Thunderbird on Mac OS X and don't experience anything like this. It
>> does hog the CPU but when it does the system is still usable, unlike Ubuntu,
>> and I was under the impression that Linux resource management was superior
>> to OS X.
>
> I find Ubuntu 13.04's performance pretty good.
>
> The thing that can really drag it down is poor graphics drivers. If
> you don't have the right (often proprietary/binary) drivers for your
> GPU, then the modern composited desktops (Unity, all the GNOME 3
> variants, KDE) really drag.
>
> So (for instance) on my main notebook, a Toshiba Satellite Pro P300A,
> my GPU (ATI RV620) is no longer supported by AMD's binary `fglrx`
> driver after 12.04. The GPU does work with the `radeon` FOSS driver,
> though.
>
> So I've switched to Xubuntu, as this makes far less demands. Unity
> does not work with fglrx, but Xfce works fine and it is fast &
> responsive.
>
> I've blogged about the experience here:
> http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/35410.html

You might also want to address the cure for the problem I had on that 
elderly Thinkpad of mine. Reduce the resolution via an edited 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file which you outlined, Liam.

Now, youtube videos and DVD movies play just fine. Before it was a 
stuttering mess. Thanx Liam! Ric



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