Fan activity

[skjones007]

I seem to get more fan noise/activity with LM 18.2 than with, say, Ubuntu even though LM seems to be using less resources. Any thoughts on why?

[Petermint]

If you are comparing the latest releases, there are some differences. LM 18.3 is a performance catchup when they move to a later version of the interface software. If LM 18.3 is slower than Ubuntu, then measure the difference and report it.

[skjones007]

What, exactly, is 'interface software'? Will this speed up XFCE version of LM or just Cinnamon?

[Petermint]

The change in 18.3 is in the connection from Cinnamon to the GUI code in the background. This may flow on to MATE as MATE is similar and also maintained by LM. Xfce is a separate unrelated project doing things a different way. Xfce is already lighter in weight.

[skjones007]

Thanks for the responses. Can i ask one more question? What version of LM do you use personally? Cinnamon?

[Petermint]

LM 18.2 Cinnamon upgraded to kernel 4.10 to fix one problem.

Firefox, Thunderbird, and everything else use about 2 GB of the 4 GB memory. Average processor use is usually below 10% of the 2 * 1.6 GHz cores. In Firefox, I use Noscript to stop Web sites flooding the Web pages with Javascript and videos.