Summary of testing Mint 13 and LMDE 64 bit, different desktops and file systems:
Xfce, Mate, KDE are working well, but activities with Cinnamon: terrible slow (ext4 and xfs, Maya and LMDE):
It takes more than half a minute to open Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird, Terminal, Gedit (Pluma),...
Opening home folder or folders on an external hd - normal, but displaying a *.png or *.pdf: ~40 sec.
How is that possible?
I never had a similar problem with Dell Precision M 4400 (in more than a dozen distris).
Edit:
After having installed "lshw":
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dell
description: Computer
width: 64 bits
capabilities: vsyscall32
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 3954MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
size: 800MHz
capacity: 800MHz
width: 64 bits
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G96M [Quadro FX 770M]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:f5000000-f5ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f2000000-f3ffffff ioport:df00(size=128) memory:f4000000-f407ffff
Edit2:
All versions (distris) installed!
Edit3:
Mint13 xfs: boot, root and home partition,
Mint13 ext4 and LMDE xfs + ext4: root and home.
ALL: logical partitions.
BTW: btrfs: not possible on Maya.
