I have a samsung netbook n150 1Gb Ram (Intel graphic card), 1,66GHz Intel Atom processor. It was working great with the ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition, really fast boot very eficient but I have updated to 12.04 (the netbook edition doesn't exist anymore) and now the system is so slow: slow boot, sometimes it doesn't even boot properly, strange screen light on and off behaviour, when you click on an icon takes for ever to open the app even the terminal it takes like more than 10s! It seems that this new distro was made for a far more powerful systems than this netbook.
I am considering to revert back to 10.04 or choose another linux distro but is there anythhing i can do to fix these problems? Any body else had similar problems. Thanks in advance
Best Answer
I would suggest that you try installing the "Gnome" package from the Ubuntu software centre, this means that you will be able to to choose to boot into "Gnome Classic" at login where you will be presented with the traditional Gnome 2.x UI found in Ubuntu 10.04. This seems to make my netbook run faster than with Unity (I even wrote an article about it on my blog here, when it was still in beta)
Although I still use Unity 3d with my netbook as I LOVE unity.
If you still want to experience Unity but can't live with the speed that your getting try logging in to "Unity 2d" as this will put less strain on your processor. Or another option would be to upgrade your RAM as this will also improve Unity's performance.