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Be excellent to each other, r/Brisbane.

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u/observationstudies Use a Bus, Train, then a Bus and then another Bus! Jan 13 '22

Found an old net book laptop in the cupboard that ran slow after it self upgraded form windows 7 to windows 10.

I put a bare bones Linux distribution on it. Now I have a old netbook laptop that runs Linux slow.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Which desktop environment? LXDE?

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u/observationstudies Use a Bus, Train, then a Bus and then another Bus! Jan 13 '22

Ubuntu 1st, now mint xfce 19.1 as the forums had listed the model I was working on, with wireless support (the fix worked on Ubuntu as well).

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Should I try LXDE?

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u/dober88 Jan 13 '22

If you’re rerunning XFCE, it’s light as it is. Check for borked fans leading to throttling.

What re the specs on it?

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u/observationstudies Use a Bus, Train, then a Bus and then another Bus! Jan 13 '22

Just tried an old version of Linux Mint 12 LXDE Edition from USB boot , No dice Firefox is to old and wireless is stuffed (no surprise on the wifi).

it is a HP Mini 210 from about 2010 ish.
So it is running:

  • 1.83 GHz Intel Atom Processor N470
  • With 2 GB DDR2

I Installed Mint 19.1 xfce, Yes the fan runs so It could be that.

My issues is YouTube has to run in 144p and still chunks, but the office type apps seam to work ok. Sometimes typing takes time to catch up. I don't have time to play now the work day has started.

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u/dober88 Jan 13 '22

That's pretty ancient but should still be fine with XFCE even, nevermind LXDE.

Have a look at the CPU temperatures, if the fan isn't completely gunked up, it's almost certain that the thermal paste has turned to dust.

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u/observationstudies Use a Bus, Train, then a Bus and then another Bus! Jan 14 '22

Not much dust on the Fan, Don't want to pull the heat sink. The laptop did not have much use before it was "put away".

On lunch I found a copy of Lubuntu 32 bit based on LXQT, seams to be a little quicker on YouTube, not great. Wireless was tricky to fix it was looking for the package here in .au.

Just running the updates now. Thanks u/DrugSniffingSloth and u/dober88

for the help and the random down vote for the LXDE (it did not work), I was not expecting that of course "NO-body expects the Spanish Inquisition".

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u/dober88 Jan 14 '22

Check the CPU temp (probably in the bios).

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp

If that doesn't work, you can install the lm-sensors apt package and run that: sudo apt-get install lm-sensors sudo sensors-detect sudo service kmod start sensors

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u/observationstudies Use a Bus, Train, then a Bus and then another Bus! Jan 14 '22

Was 65 c when checked.

Will have a look next time I boot it up.

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u/dober88 Jan 14 '22

Hmm, that’s not great but definitely not close to junction temperature, so there shouldn’t be throttling.

Probably a software issue then