[00:29] <polarbear> hello, would anyone recomend changing swappiness and enable disk to write cache to disk? in a normal desktop environment with 4gb ram and ssd?
[05:12] <polarbear> hello anyone awake?
[05:36] <polarbear> anyone here?
[07:05] <polarbear> having a hilarious day today
[11:04] <polarbear> anyone here?
[11:10] <jea> yes
[11:10] <jea> hello polarbear 
[11:11] <polarbear> oh hello
[11:12] <polarbear> got any cool optimising tip for a normal desktop envcironment?
[11:13] <jea> what type of optimisations are you looking for?
[11:13] <polarbear> mainly stability useful tips im kinda new to linux
[11:14] <polarbear> so far i found16.04.1 much better than 14.04 for hardware, everything im using works well
[11:19] <polarbear> yer dan how long u been using ubuntu for?
[11:19] <polarbear> dang**
[11:46] <jea> You will normally find that the newer versions have better hardware support, simply because they keep adding new drivers and things like that to the kernel
[11:47] <jea> If you want a really stable environment, definitely stick to the LTS releases as you seem to be. they are supported for a long time and will require less changes than the standard ones (which are only supported for 9 months)
[11:48] <jea> as for optimisation, that really comes down to personal preference
[11:48] <jea> I don't change all that much on a base ubuntu install, apart from a few command line tools that I use for software development and some non-free tools for playing MP3 files, etc
[11:49] <jea> I like the unity interface that comes with ubuntu, but there are a lot of people who don't. the good thing is that you can choose whatever you want, install it and then start using it
[12:27] <polarbear> cool