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chasehornby55

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hey guys i plan to setup a home server on ubuntu server but since i know nothing of linux i just have it on my normal pc to play around with for now and to test run it. i noticed when i installed it however it runs painfully slow. My specs that would directly affect it are i am running a i7 4790k i have an amd radeon hd7870 and 16gb of ram. i dont see why it is slow but loading settings and other apps is painfully slow. any ideas as to why? a second minor question is do any of you know where i can learn to setup the linux server like how to setup the samba part and everything..
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Although an SSD would make it even faster, it should fly on a normal hard disk so I wouldn't worry abou this. If you have only just installed the OS it may be that it is still indexing the disk, or some other initialization. Is the hard disk showing a lot of activity?

As a first basic troubleshooting open a terminal window and type "top". This should give you a display of the running processes, a bit like a text version of Windows Task Manager. This may help you to work out what is going on.
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Although an SSD would make it even faster, it should fly on a normal hard disk so I wouldn't worry abou this. If you have only just installed the OS it may be that it is still indexing the disk, or some other initialization. Is the hard disk showing a lot of activity?

As a first basic troubleshooting open a terminal window and type "top". This should give you a display of the running processes, a bit like a text version of Windows Task Manager. This may help you to work out what is going on.
 
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OP probably means Ubuntu on mechanical HDD is objectively slow compared to Windows on an SSD. Fact of life is that SSD are becoming almost order of magnitude faster than HDD!
 
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I took "painfully slow" literally, but I'll leave the OP to respond with what is really meant by this. TBH, I notice little difference between Linux on an SSD and a normal HDD, once it has booted, as libraries files that are used more than once tend to be cached in RAM.
 
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haha after much frustration i had removed ubuntu entirely and plan to install it on a normal acer aspire latter on this month. Thanks for all the replys, Ijack gave the most detail and help what is why their best answer. Thanks!
 
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