slow and lagging in performance

[yim]

has anyone else encountered the phoenix edition to be slower and lagging in performance compared to other DE?
my personal experience is that the gnome edition is much faster , does this make since or am I expecting too much?

thanks yim

[Lee2010]

I find the XFCE edition to be pretty great. It's fast and comes with a great selection of apps.

Maybe it's your hardware?

[menotu]

On the odd occasion I try the phoenix edition I find it to be fast and snappy - and that's always in a Virtualbox VM so it would be faster on a normal setup.

What are your system specs?

[parnote]

I have Phoenix/Xfce installed on two laptops and one netbook. It's always been nothing but fast and responsive. On my IBM Thinkpad T42, I go from power up to desktop in less than 30 seconds. While running Phoenix on the T42, nearly everything I do with Phoenix is fast and nearly instantaneous.

It would be helpful if you were to post your system specs. Otherwise, everyone is just shooting into the black, midnight dark.

parnote

[Texstar]

It would be helpful if you were to post your system specs. Otherwise, everyone is just shooting into the black, midnight dark.

parnote

It's so dark the bullets have to come back for flashlights!

[menotu]

Ouch! that ricochet got me 

[yim]

I've installed it on my parents pc it's an hp something or other, has 64bit athlon 1.8 512 mem and ati graphics , I've installed on numerouse machines I have an hp pavilion 533w 2.5 p4 and 700mem and the phoenix edition takes like 10 min to boot but others do not, bad burn maybe. Just curious if you guys had better luck with the gnome version as I have. It boots and runs great off live cd and have just installed on the 533w and it performs very well. although I've had rhythmbox crash a couple of times and randomly lost all the default radio stations, kinda weird. Anyhow, it's a great distro but for some reason the xfce edition is painfully slow and labored. Gonna try the gnome edition on my parents machine later today, live cd that is to see if it does any better. will be back here later and let you guys know

thanks for your interest

yim

[T6]

remember that you can have all the des you want in only one installation, just open synaotic and add task-kde, gnome, xfce, lxde and others

the kdm menu where is asked the user and password will let you choose the de you want to load

about the time, the specific machine what kernel is using?  what chipset is using(ati has many chipsets)?

have you pressed esc key to see verbose mode and any possible report showing a problem?

with the cpus you mention and more ram you can load kde4 and work perfectly, i do

about bad burns you can verify the md5checksum to see if the file was downloaded correctly and enable verify burned disc in the app you used to burn the disc

[menotu]

phoenix edition takes like 10 min to boot but others do not, bad burn maybe

Yes, yim - definitely something wrong taking 10 mins to boot, and it could well be a bad burn.

Its always advised to burn a LiveCD at a slow speed and also do an md5sum and media check and that way if the checks show things were good you can at least. discount them when troubleshooting.

[yim]

appreciate the reply's fella's, I do burn my iso's at the slowest speed usually though the burn gets faster the longer the burn goes, starts at 4x and ends at about 30x I have no idea why or how to fix that one, it's always done that with brasero go figure. Anyhow, I did burn a gnome edition and tried the live cd and as I thought it did work better but hung up a few times, I think a hardware issue. And the reason for not just installing task-gnome is that my parents are on very slow connection and would take forever wanted to get stats before going that far.

Thanks again for your input

yim

[T6]

"starts at 4x and ends at about 30x I have no idea why or how to fix that one"

some burners have this behavior, it is worse with some drives than others

"I did burn a gnome edition and tried the live cd and as I thought it did work better but hung up a few times, I think a hardware issue"

time to say the system specs of that machine, especially cpu speed, video card and ram available, also if you know the mainboard you have there

in the installation you have what kernel do you have?

[yim]

ok guys got the specs per HP site 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00610113&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=1843604

now the cd I burned with the random speed isn't this machine but now I know that I don't have the
only one

thanks again