[mdlug] Latest Mint 15 is very slow on Virtual Machine, so is Ubuntu

[Drew]

Personally I boot Mint Cinnamon on a real machine as a loopback system
using a Super Grub 2 installation that I've made to run off the hard
drive (along with a bunch of other live CD images with loopback.cfg
files).


On 7/5/13, Shoufeng Yang <shfyang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, folks:
>
>      After seeing the demo of Mint Cinnamon, I installed it on my VM
> machine, which has 16GB memory and 6-core AMD CPU. Even when I assigned
> 4GB/4 cores to it, it’s still running slow, as suggested by the warning each
> time I start it (This machine lacks hardware support blahblah.....). Since I
> am primarily focused on Centos/RHEL, I can’t install it on a real machine.
> The same sluggishness also applies when the latest Ubuntu is running with 4
> cores, so I reinstalled 12.04 and it is running a lot smoother.
>     Canonical now releases 13.04, I hope they put more focus on the quality,
> in stead of releasing half-baked stuff every 2 months (not intended to
> offend anyone if you work for them).  IMHO, Ubuntu is the only Linux (I
> don’t want to start a war here lol) that has the potential for mass market,
> as we see how egregiously abusive Microsoft is when they force Windows 8
> onto average Joe (Microsoft employee told me their boss said consumer had
> ZERO choice, so we will force them to use touch-screen and combat
> iOS/Android).
>
>     Any suggestions how to fix the sluggishness of each one on a virtual
> machine? thanks!
>
> Shoufeng
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