trubleshooting a laptop

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 03/27/2013 03:10 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> [...] 
> I am aware that she can save her open office work be usable in Windows. What I am trying to find out
> is If Xubuntu runs well from a Dvd can I make an asumption that there is
> more of a problem in windows than usual. I have run the dvd on My
> Xubuntu computer so I know about how fast it should run. It is one heck
> of a lot faster than windows on her computer is and I mean a lot.lot
> faster.   If it runs faster on her laptop does that indicate the problem
> is windows?        Doug

Yes, though a fresh install of Windows might run faster, for a while. If
the memory is low, Xubuntu can grind to a halt as well, i.e. when the OS
starts swapping memory to disk.

Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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