I have googled many times for fixes, but nothing seems to relate to my set-up and also there seems to be a fair posts here where people have slow PCs/laptops, but none seem to end with success.
I have always had old laptops at least five years old (usually rescued from firms throwing them out), so never expect lightning performance, but I do feel they're slower than running the contemporary version of Windows. I have been using Linux Lite since 3.8 2.8.
My current laptop, a Dell Lattitude E5430 ran Windows 10 with no issues at all. It has a 1,8 GHz two core processor and 16 GB of RAM and SSD harddrive, so I think that the fan shouldn't roar when I watch a Youtube video, nor should Evince take nearly a minute to open a PDF. Most applications seems take a noticeable moment to open. It is definitley slower than when it ran Windows 10 with 4 GB of RAM and a regular harddrive.
I cannot see anything in the System Monitor that is eating resources either.
According to inxi, this is my machine:
I would appreciate any suggestions of where to look to eke out a bit better performance.
Thanks.
I have always had old laptops at least five years old (usually rescued from firms throwing them out), so never expect lightning performance, but I do feel they're slower than running the contemporary version of Windows. I have been using Linux Lite since 3.8 2.8.
My current laptop, a Dell Lattitude E5430 ran Windows 10 with no issues at all. It has a 1,8 GHz two core processor and 16 GB of RAM and SSD harddrive, so I think that the fan shouldn't roar when I watch a Youtube video, nor should Evince take nearly a minute to open a PDF. Most applications seems take a noticeable moment to open. It is definitley slower than when it ran Windows 10 with 4 GB of RAM and a regular harddrive.
I cannot see anything in the System Monitor that is eating resources either.
According to inxi, this is my machine:
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System: Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Linux Lite 6.2 LTS
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E5430 non-vPro v: 01 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0J24KX v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A10 date: 02/06/2013
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron B840 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
Speed: 1892 MHz min/max: 800/1900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1871 2: 1773
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1) v: 3.3 Mesa 22.2.5
Audio: Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic
Network: Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Drives: Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 139.92 GiB (62.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS240G2G0A-00JH30 size: 223.57 GiB
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: MATSHITA model: DVD+-RW UJ8D1 dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ramI would appreciate any suggestions of where to look to eke out a bit better performance.
Thanks.