mark <m...@aktivix.org> writes: > Hi people, > > I'm asking your advice here because since upgrading from stretch to > buster, my laptop has "become slow" by which I mean applications take > longer to open, new windows take several seconds to complete drawing on > the desktop and there's a noticeable lag when I use the mouse to select > text (you can see the text becoming highlighted one char at a time). > > I wonder, is one of the new features in buster (e.g. ACLs) too taxing on > my old machine, and if so can I turn it off? > > The machine in question is a ThinkPad T500, core2duo processor 2.4GHz, > with 4GB RAM and an SSD - see https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T500 . > > I installed first with default Gnome desktop, then ran that without > Wayland, then switched to Mate, but none of that helped. > > Any suggestions please? > > Thanks in advance, > Mark
Hi, On the face of it no as my T60p made the change fine that didn't tax the 2.33Ghz CPU. Maybe journalctl -b might give some clues? What GFX does the T500 have? Intel or Ati -- Regards......... PGP Fingerprint: 3DF8 311C 4740 B5BC 3867 72DF 1050 452F 9BCE BA00 https://keybase.pub/dekks_herton/mykey.asc
