2010 install and formatting home question

[steveblezy]

I have a simple question. I was running the beta kde4. When I went to install 2010, I used the existing linux partitions but I did not format home. Everything installed well, went to the repo and did all the updates etc. Everything runs, boots up insainly fast but the performance of Kwin and or compiz is often chuggy and slow. Much slower than the beta kde4 (4.2). So my question is, should I try reinstalling but this time, format my old home partition? It seems that most people are getting great performance where I am having a noticably lower performance that my previous install. Seeing that my hardware has not changed and the correct drivers are loaded etc, I am wondering if some of my issues are related to having not formatting my old home.

Any ideas if formating/not formating home would make any real difference?

Steve

[DBobb]

It should not make a difference, logically. Unless you are perhaps using your old user folder from /home/ as your current one -- then there might be some residual configs that are causing problems. A somewhat quick test would be, I suppose, to make a new user name and new user folder. or trying to log in as root and see how the performance is. If it's noticeably better then your main user login, then copy your documents to your new user and remove the old one when you think it's best.

I don't really know about this specific problem but that's what I would try.

[Neal ManBear]

There were changes between the betas and the final. You need to format /home, too, when installing 2010.

[steveblezy]

Ahhhhhhhh. I had a feeling that something was up. it was a real head scratcher as everything was working but too many times things just seemed a little bit 'off'. Looks like I will do a re-installation this weekend and see how things go.

Thanks for the info.

Steve