| Guest72 | Lubuntu is pretty laggy for me | 05:44 |
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| Guest72 | I expected LXQt to be more lightweight | 05:44 |
| Guest72 | What are the most lightweight/fast Desktop Environments around? | 05:44 |
| guiverc | Guest72, LXQt is likely the fastest; Qt5 is far lighter than GTk3, but the DE is not the only issue relating to lag; if using a Qt5 DE but not using Qt5 apps then you're likely wasting resources which can slow down a limited-resource machine | 05:53 |
| Guest72 | Im using a 2008 Laptop Libreboot X200s | 05:55 |
| Guest72 | so its good but starting to show its age | 05:55 |
| Guest72 | that being said, if this laptop could handle linux in 2008, it should be able to handle linux today | 05:56 |
| Guest72 | Im using Lubuntu 20.04 LTS currently | 05:56 |
| Guest72 | But it gets somewhat laggy | 05:56 |
| Guest72 | sometimes | 05:56 |
| guiverc | I'm keying this into 2009 dell desktop... works great here... Do you have swap enabled? That is the biggest issue I've had on some devices | 05:57 |
| Guest72 | How do i check? | 05:57 |
| guiverc | https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/how-to-create-a-swapfile-in-lubuntu-20-04-20-10/1959 | 05:57 |
| guiverc | at the start of the post is a 'check' (free -h) | 05:57 |
| Guest72 | Does the SWAP handled by the OS automatically? | 05:58 |
| guiverc | If you created a swap partition chances are it was automatically used; however the Lubuntu 20.04 LTS did not create one by default (it allowed you to create one but it relied on you opting to do so) | 05:59 |
| Guest72 | Where was the option? | 05:59 |
| guiverc | Maybe more detail - https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/swap-and-lubuntu-21-04-hirsute-and-up/2591 | 05:59 |
| Guest72 | I dont think I manually enabled the SWAP | 05:59 |
| Guest72 | Should I add it now? | 05:59 |
| guiverc | I don't know how much RAM you have, but I for sure use swap on my thinkpad x201 with 4GB of ram; refer the first link I provided (for creating a swap file... I may have used swap partition; I forget) | 06:00 |
| Guest72 | Yeah I only have 4 gigs of ram I think | 06:00 |
| Guest72 | maybe 8 | 06:00 |
| Guest72 | free | 06:02 |
| Guest72 | total used free shared buff/cache available | 06:02 |
| Guest72 | Mem: 3664908 1273856 829172 69112 1561880 2093392 | 06:02 |
| Guest72 | Swap: 0 0 0 | 06:02 |
| guiverc | I'd create a swap file following the first link I provided :) | 06:02 |
| Guest72 | free -h | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | total used free shared buff/cache available | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | Mem: 3.5Gi 1.2Gi 814Mi 61Mi 1.5Gi 2.0Gi | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | Swap: 0B 0B 0B | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | Loks like I got 3.5gigs of ram :o | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | 2 gigs of ram?? 1.2 g used, 800mb free = 2 gigs ram total?? | 06:03 |
| guiverc | nah you have 4GB, but your system uses part of the 4GB for it's own detail | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | ok | 06:03 |
| guiverc | s/detail/purposes; | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | only 814 mb free | 06:03 |
| Guest72 | What does making a SWAP do? | 06:04 |
| do5rsw | yeah but 1.5Gb in buffers/cache | 06:04 |
| do5rsw | if more ram is required linux will reduce the buffers/cache | 06:04 |
| Guest72 | so what can the SWAP do? | 06:05 |
| guiverc | the second link I provided has a link to Swap FAQ at the top.. look at it if you want more details (2nd post was 21.04 & up but included more detail thn first) | 06:06 |
| Guest72 | sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=8192 ? | 06:06 |
| * guiverc is away feed birds awhile | 06:06 | |
| Guest72 | I didnt even see the GUI create swap ability | 06:07 |
| do5rsw | Guest72, hm you free -h states there is up to 2Gb of ram aavailable if needed. | 06:10 |
| do5rsw | if you plan to do something that would use that up - swap might be helpful | 06:11 |
| Guest72 | How should I secure my Linux OS more? | 06:11 |
| Guest72 | I have a UFW firewall | 06:11 |
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