#1 2024-04-23 13:20:03

Alin

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Suspiciously Slow Behavior

Hi Everyone,

I am new to the project (looks great by the way!) and fairly new to Linux in general.

I was just gifted an Asus TS10 computer (neat little thing; essentially a pc the size of a vape pen). It has 2 gb's of ram, 32 gb of  mmc space and an Atom processor from 2016).

Now my buddy who gave me this had not used this for years but had Bunsenlabs on it, and it ran very well. Unfortunately I could not figure out how to change his admin password so I  just installed Boron from scratch. This new installation runs choppier and the mouse constantly freezes and lags whenever I move the cursor to the taskbar. It also appears to be using more ram but I did not take a pic of how much it was using before (it was running a previous version so comparison wouldn't necessarily help)...

I tried running it live off a usb stick and it seemed very comparable; maybe a little smoother.
I've also tried the same live usb stick in a much older and slower HP Mini 1125 (2010?) with 2 gb's of ram and it was smooth as butter.. (this old HP Mini came with Win7 starter; that's how "powerful" it was).

Does anyone know what might be going on or what can be done?

Thank you.

Last edited by Alin (2024-04-23 13:28:29)

Robi

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Registered: 2024-01-30

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Re: Suspiciously Slow Behavior

Hi @Alin,
My silent two pieces of advice:
1. Try Mabox it uses cca 751k RAM with me (No steep learning curve)
2. Or if you have time consider installing Void linux + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5HzpWK7SBY it uses 526k RAM

BL uses 1.18G RAM with me (used free -h in terminal)

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Gaucho

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Re: Suspiciously Slow Behavior

@Robi, its not silent if your printing it out. Also, it does nothing to answer the OP's query. This is the kind of advice you see on the Debian or Mate forums, it's nearly worthless.

@Alin, bad ISO transfer to the USB? More info, please...

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html

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Alin

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Registered: 2024-04-23

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Re: Suspiciously Slow Behavior

Hi @hhh,
I will try and check the SHA256 on the iso when I get home, although I've formatted the usb stick several times and I don't think I have the original downloaded iso anymore..

I've used the same usb stick to try & install the 32bit version repeatedly with various bootable usb prepping software (rufus from windows, dd, ventoy from windows) hoping for better performance, but I can't get this computer to boot any linux 32 bit usb stick.... (I can't turn off secure boot in the bios).

Also, I thought the installation would have been fairly modern as the BunsenLabs setup asked for my wifi credentials before the os loaded and this package was released in January...

I did install everything on one partition though; could this be the cause?

I have tried running  "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt upgrade", which have not helped..

Thank you,

PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

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Re: Suspiciously Slow Behavior

Is this your ASUS TS10 - https://www.asus.com/us/displays-deskto … k-pc-ts10/ ?

This new installation runs choppier and the mouse constantly freezes and lags whenever I move the cursor to the taskbar.

Graphics? What are you connecting it to?

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Alin

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Registered: 2024-04-23

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Re: Suspiciously Slow Behavior

Hi PackRat,

Yea, that's the little cute thing I have..

I have it connected to a Sony Bravia TV, through a 3 to 1 HDMI switch.

Last edited by Alin (2024-04-24 00:46:38)

Alin

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Registered: 2024-04-23

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Re: Suspiciously Slow Behavior

Hi Folks,
Just a little update...

The issue is also present in Lubuntu, Mint, EndeavourOS, and Q4os.. (even though these os's don't even have the Taskbar on the left).

To see if it's a device or a "deeper linux" issue, I tried to run a live win7 usb but it wouldn't boot..

The bios is completely smooth though..  :S

I then tried to see if this is present when using anydesk and it was perfectly smooth... (since the plan is to use this as a streaming device, having a smooth remote control is all that's important...)