Linux desktop sluggish over time

[teddy mills]

With my window boxes I had to do backups/drive imaging in the event of a 
disk failure.
It would take 1 to 3 days to get the windows back to where it was before.

I stopped backing up my linux workstations.
I can rebuild my linux workstations so much faster (and with later builds)

Email is IMAP and as long as /home is safe,I can fdisk the drive and 
rebuild and be
running in 30 to 60 minutes.

I run Windows and Ubuntu side by side at work.
9 times out of 10 I use the Ubuntu to get the job done.

What is the 1 out of 10 times I use Windows?
As as web browser with Firefox :)



Marc Lanctot wrote:
> I just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions with this. It was
> hard to tell if my problems were app-related but I doubted it since the
> problems persisted even after I'd killed everything. 
>
> I spent the last two days completely reinstalling my machine. I tried
> Debian amd64 but after a few hours of trying to get my printer working,
> I decided it wasn't worth my time and gave Gentoo a shot. 
>
> So I'm now using Gentoo amd64, printer & scanner works (there were
> ebuilds for it -- Canon PIXMA 520, this worked out of the box in
> Ubuntu). Replaced Gnome with Xfce, TBird with Claws, and Firefox with
> Epiphany. Flash plugin and 64-bit Java working (with sound). 
>
> A little drastic, but these aren't huge sacrifices when performace is
> your first priority. ;-) 
>
> Now I just have to wait a few weeks to see what happens. 
>
> Marc
>
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