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Same here. My three year old laptop has gotten slower with every consecutive release of Ubuntu. I'm afraid to upgrade to the latest let alone to this new GL-based display server.

Guess I'll just have to switch to a 'lighter' distro with less fireworks.

I'm sure it will pay off for Ubuntu in the end... I just hope it doesn't actually start a trend for other distros to follow suit.

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There will always be Xubuntu for older computers though.

I switched to puppy linux and am loving the no-os-on-my-HD style (of course I can do a frugal install, but I am just lazy)

I too love Puppy Linux! It works great on my netbook.. faster than any of even the netbook-optimized distributions. I'm still running 4.3. The hardware support was even perfect with the LuPu on my main laptop, but I'm holding off as a lot of software packages I use are a pain... (openSUSE on this machine).

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