Helmut Wollmersdorfer <[email protected]> writes: > 2) repartition and fresh install of Squeze + Gnome2 > > With Gnome2 I was very happy and the PC was good performing. > > 3) Upgrade to Wheezy + Gnome3 > > Ooops. Not performing on this hardware good enough, too often reaching > the limits. > > But even worse is the bad usability of Gnome3. > > That's why I tried > > 4) Install XFCE without removing Gnome, because I need the convenience > of the network-manager (I use the netbook in a dozen different > locations/networks) > > It's still slow.
I guess a lot of Gnome's services are still started with your graphical environment, and they overload your machine. You can use sysv-rc-conf to make unnecessary services not to start.
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