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My laptop is 2GB, 1.2GHz dual core, LUKS. I installed Ubuntu in place of Windows XP and I thought it would go faster, but it's dog slow. This is what I have to live with:

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Zanna
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First step: Decrease swap use. This is specially useful fow low RAM (2GB or less) systems. You can check swap use by this command:

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

This is generally set to 60. To change the swappiness into a more sensible setting, type in the terminal 

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf

At the end of this file, append the following line.

vm.swappiness=10

Disable Unneeded Startup Applications.

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launch startup application by typing startup in dash and to disable a startup application, simply uncheck it.

Disable Fancy Effects Use compizconfig-settings-manager to disable them

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Install using

 sudo apt install compizconfig-settings-manager

and disable unwanted effects

Install preload 

sudo apt install preload

This software memorize what applications you use most often and preload related libraries and binaries into memory so these applications can be launched faster.

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