I have tried other flavours with the 16.04 kernel and all have been absolutely sad, system lock ups, system acting like it has a memory leak, constant reboots to get performance back to something less than woeful, even then it's slow.
Just installed LL 2.8 on one machine that has been not used since I got sick of the way it was performing (Laptop) and it's back to what I would expect, so Monday I'll try doing the same to 2 desktops that I have in the workshop that both have been acting like they may have some hardware problem, tried Linux Mate (16.04 kernel) no performance improvement, one of these machines should be kick ass, although several years old a Q6600 with a mid rang GPU and 4 gig ram should go very well on a lite weight Linux distro?!
Am I the only one?
Day 2 of installation of LL 2.8 on a sad old Dell workstation has proven that I do NOT have a mass hardware problem, both the Laptop and the slowest of the desktops that have been terrible on both LL 3.0 and 3.2 and Mate Ubuntu 16.04 are now working extremely well on LL 2.8
Quote:I have tried other flavours with the 16.04 kernel and all have been absolutely sad, system lock ups, system acting like it has a memory leak, constant reboots to get performance back to something less than woeful, even then it's slow.
Am I the only one?
From what I've seen on forums, no you're not the only one to experience problems. With new releases come new kernels and not all kernels will work well with your particular hardware -- so it's pretty common to see a certain percentage of users have issues with
any new release. But, yes it does seem from casual observation that the percentage of people experiencing difficulties is a bit higher than normal on releases based on Ubuntu 16.
I haven't yet tried LL 3.0 or 3.2 (other than in Virtualbox), but I have installed Mint 18 Xfce on four machines. The only major issue I ran into on all of them was that two processes would occationally startup and cause extremely high CPU useage. On the two oldest machines the systems would essentially grind to a halt while those processes ran. On the newer two machines it would cause very noticeable slowdown in performance. The two rogue processes were
apt-xapian-index and
gvsfd-smb-browse. Fortunately, with a bit of searching, I was able to find a way to solve the problem with them and have not had any other serious issues since.
The two old machines (both 2002 single-core Intel P4's) seemed to be fine after fix, but a bit slow due to them being ancient (2002). I did OEM installs of Mint to them so their new users can setup their own user accounts and passwords on first boot and donated the two of them to a charity.
The two newer systems (2009 Intel dual-core and 2011 AMD Phenom II quad-core) are both running very well and I haven't experienced any other problems in the few weeks I've been running them with Mint 18.
NOTE: I'd expect that all 4 machines would have run similarly well if I had put LL 3.0 on them. With LL's additional tweaks it
may have performed slightly better than Mint on the old 2002 P4's. If there were an "OEM" install mode for LL I probably would have installed that instead of Mint.
2.8 has given me 4 days of good performance on the oldest saddest machine I have,
Genuine Intel® CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz
4 gig ram
Intel 82946GZ/GL Integrated Graphics Controller
After dealing with common problems such as unable to build list when attempting to update (Chromium problem, remove chromium from the list and updating list works in Synaptic or system updates)
Kudos to the guys developing this distro, the simple intuitive interface and the effort placed into making it a windows replacement works for me, it's what I've always preferred.
Keep up the good work!