Fedora 20 to Fedora 21

[alannm37]

After installing Fedora 20 on my laptop which I had downloaded for ages, probably kernel version 13 when now Fedora 20 is on version 17 I believe, I saw that Fedora 21 had been released last month. I saw that Fedora 20 was running pretty sluggish so I gave the upgrade a go, I upgraded through the Terminal using FedUp, all worked perfectly and as of right now I am running it. But there is no performance optimization whatsoever it seems. So my question is how can I make Fedora 21 a little bit more snappy? My computer runs Windows 8.1 like lightning speed but I love Linux too much to move back and I already have a Windows PC so I really want to get this Fedora 21 on my laptop running as optimal as possible

My laptop specs:

Intel i5-4200M @ 2.50Ghz (3.1Ghz Turbo)
8GB Ram
Intel HD 4600 Graphics (Mobile Version)

Thanks for your time reading this, I appreciate it and look forward to some replies

 

[skittle]

As optimal as possible: "Gentoo".

 

[Spac3nerd]

There are not many optimization that you can perform yourself. You might get better performance if you had done a clean install, but for something like Fedora, your best choice is to use a different UI such a LXDE, XFCE, KDE etc....

Like someone has already mentioned, Gentoo is very good is you want to, and are capable of building the system the way you want to. I would not recommend using a distro such as Gentoo if you are a beginner to the world of Linux distros.

 

[alannm37]

There are not many optimization that you can perform yourself. You might get better performance if you had done a clean install, but for something like Fedora, your best choice is to use a different UI such a LXDE, XFCE, KDE etc....

Like someone has already mentioned, Gentoo is very good is you want to, and are capable of building the system the way you want to. I would not recommend using a distro such as Gentoo if you are a beginner to the world of Linux distros.

Thanks for you answer. Yes I am pretty new to Linux, been using it on and off for a few years, only know all the basic commands and things like that so I wouldn't give go with "building the system" myself yet haha. I have tried the LXDE, XFCE versions but other than the fact they don't look as good, they are terribly hard to configure for some reason, especially the desktop....