Why the Linux/Windows Desktop performance difference?

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Hello.
There is a netbook with 2GB of RAM. OS Windows 10 Home was installed, you could open 30 tabs in the Yandex browser for sure, the interface response slowed down a little, but in general it was possible to work.
I tried to install OS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, it even took a little longer to load, you open seven tabs in the muzzle, it all slows down terribly, the response between switching tabs is 30/60 seconds. In principle, the interface also freezes.
My respect to Linux-like operating systems, but nevertheless... Swap stood at 2 GB.

With what it can be connected?

Thank you.

Answer 1

>> There is a netbook, with 2GB of RAM
Further, you can not read in principle. This is not enough for a modern distribution. Why is this a hot topic, we will not raise it here. Modern Linux, especially Ubuntu, in graphical mode - requires a lot of resources.
Want Linux with graphics mode on your netbook? So take some kind of lightweight DM, for example LightDM or LXDE, and I would also choose a different distribution kit, easier.

Answer 2

There is a netbook with 2GB of RAM. OS Windows 10 Home was installed, you could open 30 tabs in the Yandex browser for sure, the interface response slowed down a little, but in general it was possible to work.

Hard to believe.

OS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, it even took a little longer to boot

This is fine. With the GUI, everything is worse than in Windows. It is heavier and more gluttonous. Set without gui, and everything will be fine.
In general, throw out a netbook of this configuration or give it to an enemy.

Answer 3

With what it can be connected?

With the fact that:
- system requirements for bootloader 20.04 - at least 4G RAM
- everything that, in principle, cannot be useful at home, is cut out in the home edition of
Windows was produced, and secondly with the lightest possible gui - xfce, lxde (xubuntu, lubuntu)

Answer 4

Linux on the desktop is disgusting. Alas.

Answer 5

Because Ubuntu consumes a lot of RAM. Try more lightweight distributions like Linux Mint, Fedora, ...

Answer 6

Install Xubuntu or Lubuntu on such a piece of iron.

Answer 7

In general, it historically happened that Linux systems asked for less processor, but more RAM, in your case, for 2 GB of Windows 10, even the home version cannot work normally, just the other day I set up a computer that was completely impossible to work, even loading, not to mention about a clean launch of the browser lasted about 8 and 1 minutes, respectively (I cleaned autoload and services), it turned out that in Windows an artificial limit of 2 GB of RAM was set in the boot parameters, after I removed almost 4 GB and became available, the computer turned on and started The browser has become 10 times faster ...
The problem with the responsiveness of the interface in DE and especially in the browser in Linux may well be in the drivers for the video card and the presence / absence of hardware acceleration, under Chrome, my NVidia proprietary drivers do not display video so well than in Firefox, and I remember half a year ago it was the other way around , the task and I / O schedulers used can still affect, you can still install another distribution for the sake of experiment, for example Manjaro Linux XFCE
On a netbook with AMD C60, E1 or E2 level processors, using Linux is also not very comfortable, here it is better to install Arch Linux with i3wm or use a completely bare console when the AMD E450 is already running quite fast (yes, I love AMD)

Answer 8

There is a very old beech, with the first ddr memory. On it, the browser even in winXP slows down. The distribution kit astra linux became the most suitable for such junk. In it, at least you can open a browser with a dozen tabs (freshly installed xp without antiviruses and other things slowed down as soon as it launched the first site). The software in Astra is very old and rarely updated, but you can find a way out of the situation.

Answer 9

Old Linux distros are worse than Windows 95 on a new machine. You're tired of looking for packages. Repositories at the end of support gradually die.
Install a normal distro, but not the trash from the ubuntu/mint series.
Need stability - get debian and lxde
Fresh packages? Not a problem - we put manjaro and rejoice. The desktop is also lxde.
Do you have the time and desire to speed up the OS a little? The answer is arch.
And, to work at the speed of light - gentoo. Easy to install, you just need to know what drivers are needed.
Another tip - do not forget about swap. Give 10 gigs for it. Minimum - 4.

Answer 10

Dear man, what kind of iron do you have!

Answer 11

I myself have 2 gigabytes of RAM and a computer as a whole in 2007, here are the distros that are suitable: MX Linux (plasma), Manjaro Linux (plasma), lubuntu, KDE Neon, Kubuntu. The Plasma working environment because it eats 300-400 mb, and in general all the distros that I advised eat about that much, just don’t install xfce, it eats 700-800 mb and is based on the gnome and everything that is mainly based on the gnome eats a lot

Answer 12

Modus Operandi of software developers for systems based on the Linux kernel, and indeed the whole so-called Open Source ideology, will never, I repeat, NEVER allow these systems to occupy any tangible place on users' desktops. All statements of linuhovodov about the reverse are easily refuted by almost thirty years of Linux history.

Answer 13

This gma 500 most likely read the thirds on ubunt, the video core was bought by intel, pupi linux works more or less.

Answer 14

With what it can be connected?

With the fact that you installed Windows 10 32-bit, and Ubuntu 20.04 - 64-bit, since 32-bit does not exist anymore. Hence, one and a half to two times the increased requirements for memory and brakes with its catastrophic shortage, which you have observed.
Either increase the memory to 8 GB, or install an older 32-bit Linux.

Answer 15

OS Windows 10 is installed in accordance with the resources, 2 GB is its minimum requirement, so a light version is installed there specifically for weak devices.
The Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop distribution requires quite a few resources for full-fledged work, I recommend installing at least Ubuntu 16.04 (18.04) Desktop. Or there are a bunch of other lightweight distributions...