please make linux un-slow

Ok, so i have the following problem.

I am running debian testing amd64 on a 1.8ghz athlon64 with 1.5gig ram. video card is a pci geforce2mx with nvidia drivers (my old x700pro died).

Linux seems to act very very slowly when i attemt to do anything, and i do not know how to fix it. I have tried both a stock debian kernel and one i compiled on my own and there was no noticeable difference in performance. The system is generally very unresponsive, and i get happy little things such as while burning a dvd , my mouse cursor lags like crazy , and switching tabs in firefox often causes music to skip (well , nicing solves that at least...).

I feel as if i am doing something horribly wrong , because there  is absolutely no reason the computer should be this slow; my old athlon-xp box with 256 mb felt faster.

Please help me.

Use a noob distro, noob.

ubuntu.com

Step 1: get rid of Gnome and KDE
Step 2: make sure your drives are using DMA
Step 3: http://kernel.kolivas.com/
Step 4: ???

it's because you're a tripfag

>>3
I dunno about the latest GNOME, but KDE 3.5.5 is fast as hell and only has a memory footprint ~10-15MB bigger than XFCE4's.  gb2/2003/

Also, good job messing up the URI to a kernel patch made of fail.

>>2
i tried ubuntu , i do not like it as much as debian, noob.

>>3
1. using openbox with occasional gnome-dependent apps
2. yes, my drives are using DMA
3. will try

thank you for the suggestions ... i just want to make sure that i am not missing anything obvious.

>>4
at your service

>>5
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/

yeah, it could be a dma problem

You have some anger issues, >>5. Don't tell me you got your ego bound up with a shitty GUI? Does it make love to you at night?

Besides, I never mentioned XCFE now, did I?

*Xfce

Whatever.

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