Kubuntu 14.04 runinng tooooo slow on 1.86 Dual core Toshiba

[michel]

Greetings,

I decided to help out my wife by switching notebooks. I thought that she needed the slightly higher end hardware to cope with her resource hungry Windows.

I installed 14.04 but was shocked to see that it performed slower that when she had windows 8 on it!

Is it the lack of video or controller drivers?

I have attached a detailed list of my system. your help would be appreciated as this is becoming a nearly useless notebook!

Thanks,

Michel

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[michel]

Why do I have the feeling that the forum is empty? I have posted a couple of posts lately without any replies!

Anyway I managed to solve my issue by installing new intel drivers from this site https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads I had issues with wrong repos and bad signatures. I goggled these and resolved all of them and I now have a much snapier albeit less stable system.

Thanks,

Michel

[TWPonKubuntu]

Michel, I experienced this on my system, 14.04, dual processor, 4Gb ram.
I removed all the "eye candy' and the speed is back to what I had under 13:04.
Look under:

Settings->System Settings->Desktop Effects->All Effects

Toggle EVERYTHING off and reboot to test the speed.
If you then absolutely need any of the effects, toggle them back on-by-one and test for speed degradations.
I don't find that I miss any of the 'effects'...

[michel]

Thank you for the suggestion. I already did that but it had little effect but now that the new video driver is installed the system is running much, much faster like on my previous machine.

Michel