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My Ubuntu installation is running slow as if it was the 90's.

Now, when I say slow, I mean slow. Whenever I want the super bar to open, it takes approximately five seconds to open, and I can see the box being drawn line by line. This takes approximately one second. However, the mouse moves perfectly smooth and no problems occur there.

Now, the specs and the setup:
Intel Core i3-6100 2@3.8Ghz (+Hyperthreading)
AMD XFX Radeon RX 460 W/ 4GB GDDR5 VRAM (PCI-E@16x)
MSI H110m Gaming Motherboard
2x 1 TB (931 GB) HDD 7200 RPM +SATA 6 GB/S
16 GB DIMM DDR4 @2133MHz

The Botched Setup:
I have Windows 10 on the first HDD with Ubuntu on the second, and to get to Ubuntu, I just run the second harddisk with boot override.

I have a confession, I installed Ubuntu with VMWare, and linked the Virtual Machine to my blank second harddisk to install, and opened it when it was done, and saw this problem.

P.S. Xorg (currently) is taking 98.3% of my CPU, and 1% of my RAM (160 MB)

muru
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Its more a guess as I am having a similar slow down in a system. The reason there is the graphics which is using not the correct hardware accelerating driver, but a generic one which is using the CPU to emulate the things the GPU could to. Also the high load in xorg hints to that. I could imagine that your somewhat exotic installation procedure prevented the graphics driver from a correct installation. So before doing anything else I would suggest to reinstall the graphics driver. I can not walk you through thid, but you should find plenty of descriptions by searching for your card type.

CatMan
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