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Why is web browsing so slow on Linux, no matter which browser I use it is painfully slow, with images sometimes not even appearing, yet in windows bang its there.
Would appreciate some guidance here please, before I end up switching back to windows, I don't want to but it's driving me mad.
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Maybe you can add more memory (ram) to your machine. If not, Mate or Xfce may be a better choice for you than Cinnamon. Try one in a live session & see if things run any faster,
You have pretty well the exact same PC as me! Z170 motherboard, i3-6100, 8GB of RAM and a Tonga GPU!
It's lightening fast for me. The whole OS is. Quicker than Windows! I use Brave browser but I doubt that matters.
Have you had a look to see what you download speeds are on something like https://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/ ?
Maybe it something to do with the network driver?.
Also, what hard drive do you have? 2GB looks like a live boot? It could be that.
Also, any reason you have Mint 18.3? Maybe try 19.1.
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That's interesting i should be running 8GB RAM. Here's where my computing knowledge fails badly. Why would it be showing the RAM at 2GB?
Doesn't the OS run off the HDD?
Initially I had windows running with 8GB RAM and 1TB HDD, then thought it would be good to run Linux alongside so assumed that i needed another HDD rather than partitioning. So dutifully got one and installed Mint on it. Everything works fine it's just the browsing.
joelpeyton wrote:
That's interesting i should be running 8GB RAM. Here's where my computing knowledge fails badly. Why would it be showing the RAM at 2GB?
do you have quite a lot of errors in iwconfig the bottom line usually where TX: and Invalid misc: ?
change your DNS to cloudfare https://1.1.1.1/ and test it like so. not to state the obvious but restart networking to enable the new dns. either by reboot or uncheck the networking in systemtray isp speed test
You know what, I just can't get my head around this. Same computer, same RAM, same browser, same network, nothing different except OS, yet Linux is infuriatingly slower.
There's got to be something causing your slow web browsing. I've used the same computer (the one I'm using right now) with both Windows and Linux, and web browsing was just as fast on both of them, so it's not the fault of the OS.
Here's one thing to try. In the browser, find your setting for "Hardware Acceleration." If it's disabled, enable it. If it's enabled, then disable it. But this is just a guess on my part.
joelpeyton wrote: ⤴Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:38 pm
You know what, I just can't get my head around this. Same computer, same RAM, same browser, same network, nothing different except OS, yet Linux is infuriatingly slower.
HERE IS MY inxi -F surely you have a nice machine but mine is smoother
i always updated my system and using kernel 4.4. try using kernel 4.4 maybe that would help you
I seem to be getting intermittent download speeds off my ISP. What I don't understand though is, I'm assuming this is a regular occurrence, so is there any reason why on Linux it would seem worse than compared to Windows?
