- Feb 13, 2015
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I was using ubuntu (17.10) for 6 months on my desktop (Dell Inspiron i5-2400 8GB, nVidia GT1030) in a Corsair 120GB SSD.
Wanting to play (Windows) games with friends, I bought a new SSD (250GB), Win10pro and transplanted the Ubuntu 120GB SSD to an older laptop (Acer AMD E300 4GB, Win7) to breathe new life into it.
It worked without a hitch! I simply switched Gnome to Xorg during login and no problems!
My question is: I don't know if Ubuntu is taking advantage of all (poor) resources from the laptop. I imagine a fresh install would be ideal in this case, but I don't wanna lose all my (user-friendly and graphical) configurations - I don't have the time to reconfigure it all to my liking again.
Does anyone think the laptop would perform better (or less worse) if I did a fresh Ubuntu install?
Thanks for reading.
Wanting to play (Windows) games with friends, I bought a new SSD (250GB), Win10pro and transplanted the Ubuntu 120GB SSD to an older laptop (Acer AMD E300 4GB, Win7) to breathe new life into it.
It worked without a hitch! I simply switched Gnome to Xorg during login and no problems!
My question is: I don't know if Ubuntu is taking advantage of all (poor) resources from the laptop. I imagine a fresh install would be ideal in this case, but I don't wanna lose all my (user-friendly and graphical) configurations - I don't have the time to reconfigure it all to my liking again.
Does anyone think the laptop would perform better (or less worse) if I did a fresh Ubuntu install?
Thanks for reading.
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