Re: ubuntu unity slow

if I wasn't so committed to Ubuntu I would have ditched it by now... 
it's painfully slow

I stayed with Unity because that's what Ubuntu is doing and I didn't 
want to be Canute, but I have no idea what they were thinking with Unity.

Sorry... that doesn't help debug it :(



On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote:
> Afternoon,
>
> Hope there are a few Ubuntu users around?
>
> Have Ubuntu 14.04 running Unity Desktop.
>
> The hardware is i7 model 26, 12 Gig RAM, Cape Verde PRO Radeon HD 7750,
> Graphics
> driver in use: radeon, driving a 30inch Dell at 2560 X 1600.
>
> Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so
> slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question.
>
> Mail reader works, Libre Office is okay, GIMP is fine.
>
> Anybody got ideas as to where to start debugging this??
>
> Regards,
>
> Ashley
>

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