It's amazing how "failures" lead to knowledge sometimes. First, as i wrote in previous posts, Memory Burned my laptops motherboard. I decided not to fix it as motherboards of TX1000 are not 'stable' in time. So, builded a wreck working laptop out of two destroyed ones, but with far lower system specifications than the one i had. So, SPEED issue rose up !
Asus and Acer don't have their UL30JT and 3820TG models ready yet, so i have to stick to the wreck until one of the two is out.
In a way, i was forced into digging for "enhancements" in hardware and software level. In a short period of time i found various tweaks. The two most signicant ones is HDD acoustic management settings and for linux, the XFCE environment ! XFCE was there but i never tried it as i had no reason before. With 'Wreck'... i had to try it!
Let me say that wreck was doing fine with GNOME when running 2~3 programs at the same time... but not more than that. Even with acoustic management set to "SCREAM if you have to, but GIVE ME SPEED!!!" the performance was dropping from good to 'just ok' with some 'poor' moments. So, last night added XFCE in the blend for try-out. And YES ! It rose the speed way up!
I'll stick to XFCE on wrecky since i have no interface lags anymore ! I'm still testing it and don't know the tricks of the new interface yet - but for sure - speed is so much better now and i am still using the same programs (notifications etc) as in gnome environment :)
Asus and Acer don't have their UL30JT and 3820TG models ready yet, so i have to stick to the wreck until one of the two is out.
In a way, i was forced into digging for "enhancements" in hardware and software level. In a short period of time i found various tweaks. The two most signicant ones is HDD acoustic management settings and for linux, the XFCE environment ! XFCE was there but i never tried it as i had no reason before. With 'Wreck'... i had to try it!
Let me say that wreck was doing fine with GNOME when running 2~3 programs at the same time... but not more than that. Even with acoustic management set to "SCREAM if you have to, but GIVE ME SPEED!!!" the performance was dropping from good to 'just ok' with some 'poor' moments. So, last night added XFCE in the blend for try-out. And YES ! It rose the speed way up!
I'll stick to XFCE on wrecky since i have no interface lags anymore ! I'm still testing it and don't know the tricks of the new interface yet - but for sure - speed is so much better now and i am still using the same programs (notifications etc) as in gnome environment :)
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