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please make linux un-slow

Name: miatabomb !ljZvo3xL6M 2006-11-06 18:29

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.

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-06 19:17

Use a noob distro, noob.

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