I've installed linux on my 1GHz Athlon again last week, after 2 years, and since I am a newbie, I decided to go for an easy to install distro, so come Mandrake 9.2. I was surprised to how slow my system became. I mean really sluggish!In order to open ANYTHING I had to wait for around 15 seconds or more. if I wanted to run the word processor of Openoffice.org I was relly screwed! It would take around a minute to show up. Once the programs were up they would run at normal speed but the start up times were unbearable. The internet was slow as well. Not downloading stuff but getting response after I click on links (I'm on cable broadband).
Then yesterday, while I was playing with the lower panel on KDE 3.1, I accidentally turned off the taskbar function... Voila!!! Now it runs like a charm! It starts the programs in the blink of an eye.... Go figure... :lol:
