You could try installing the xfce4 desktop environment, also try to find lightweight apps like Abi word instad of open office, gnumeric for spreadsheets, audacious instead of amarok and so on, do a search for "lightweight" at ubuntuforums.org, Dont use big pictures as desktop wallpapers or fancy big iconsets...
install xfce
sudo apt-get install xfce4
logout and choose xfce session when you log in again.
You could look into windowmanagers like fluxbox also.
Or install the xfce version of mint i use it and it is really good! The regular one with gnome or kde is a bit heavy for you machine.
everything is just....sluggish, help?
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Re: everything is just....sluggish, help?
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Re: everything is just....sluggish, help?
hmm thats odd, never happened to me, is it when you start the terminal from within xfce or did you not get that far as to install it yet?
If the regular mint is such a strain on you computer that you cant start the terminal it would probably not work with Mint Xfce either.
You could try the XFCE Community Edition BETA 008, works great for me on AMD Duron 1.3/256 sdram
Or howabout trying fluxbuntu? Mint is based on Ubuntu, and Fluxbuntu is Ubuntu with Fluxbox ontop, really lightweight, it is some work getting mp3, divx, encrypted DVD's to work, but under the hood it is the same thing as Mint, just a little rougher around the edges.
Fluxbox is not as pretty as Gnome though, but what can you expect, as long as you get the job done right?
Get it here:
http://www.fluxbuntu.org/js.html
Get your media codecs and howto make them work here:
http://medibuntu.org/
If the regular mint is such a strain on you computer that you cant start the terminal it would probably not work with Mint Xfce either.
You could try the XFCE Community Edition BETA 008, works great for me on AMD Duron 1.3/256 sdram
Or howabout trying fluxbuntu? Mint is based on Ubuntu, and Fluxbuntu is Ubuntu with Fluxbox ontop, really lightweight, it is some work getting mp3, divx, encrypted DVD's to work, but under the hood it is the same thing as Mint, just a little rougher around the edges.
Fluxbox is not as pretty as Gnome though, but what can you expect, as long as you get the job done right?
Get it here:
http://www.fluxbuntu.org/js.html
Get your media codecs and howto make them work here:
http://medibuntu.org/