Nautilus slow copying files.

Hi, I've done a lot of big file copy operations between two local drives over the last few days. What I've noticed is that Nautilus is considerably slower copying than MC and plain command line copying. MC and command line are close with MC ...

Message posted on the April 8th, 2012 - 7:15 PM ET

Bug#643712: general: GNOME or GTK tabs are very slow

Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, For the last two days any GNOME or GTK program that I run that has tabs (e.g. gedit, nautilus, Iceweasel etc) have become very slow to open new tabs, switch between tabs or close tabs. Nautilus ...

Message posted on the September 28th, 2011 - 5:40 PM ET

Ubuntu Nappy victim: "unusably slow... 20-45 seconds to open Nautilus"

"I have installed 11.04 from scratch on my laptop (not a netbook) 3 times now. Trying the desktop 32-bit, alternate install 32-bit and alternate install 64-bit. All of them are unusably slow. It will take 20-45 seconds just to open nautilus or ...

Message posted on the May 4th, 2011 - 11:54 PM ET

Slow opening of the 'Network' place in Nautilus.

Hi, I am using Avahi with sftp.ssh.service added to /etc/avahi/services to enable discovery of ssh enabled computers in the network. They now show up under the "Network" place in Nautilus and when I click the "Network Servers" ...

Message posted on the June 24th, 2010 - 4:31 PM ET

Bug#648461: evince: Printing certain PDF files really very slow (gs uses 100% cpu, etc.)

Package: evince Version: 2.30.3-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Certain PDF documents printed with evince take ages to be processed by gs. It seems that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/680628 ...

Message posted on the November 11th, 2011 - 2:00 PM ET

Bug#567056: brasero: Brasero is very slow burning a data DVD-R

Package: brasero Version: 2.28.3-2 Severity: important Burning some files in a data DVD using brasero is very slow. I get 2.6x speed at most and my drive is 8x capable. Using growisofs directly, i get a 6.6x speed average (which seems reasonable ...

Message posted on the January 26th, 2010 - 6:30 PM ET

USB is slow with Ubuntu? Can't be. Alias said Ubuntu is perfect (HA HA HA HA)

Slow USB and SATA Transfer Speeds in Jaunty 9.04 Since installing Ubuntu 9.04 I noticed USB and Hard Drive transfers are not very fast. I'm transferring 15gb to an external HDD right now and it's going about 4MB a sec. At first it starts at ...

Message posted on the October 19th, 2009 - 11:47 AM ET

Bug#548243: gajim (0.12.5) extremely slow to execute any action

Package: gajim Version: 0.12.5-1 Severity: important I currently have a desktop PC with Debian testing (where the reporter) and a notebook with Debian Sid, in both (after upgrading to version gajim 0.12.5) the gajim is extremely slow to use. When ...

Message posted on the September 24th, 2009 - 4:40 PM ET

The Truth About How Much Ubuntu 12:10 sucks.

This one should put a major dent in the COLA Linturd mantra of "works for me". This is hysterical. How can the Linux community release such garbage to the unsuspecting public? Do they even test this crap before they release it? It sure ...

Message posted on the October 27th, 2012 - 7:12 PM ET

Bug#528456: unable to open matroska mkv file properties

Package: nautilus Version: 2.28.1-1 Severity: normal That was reported in May, no action whatsoever. I have the same problem now with .ogg files. OTOH, .ttf files open immediately. That is a bit a pain, because somehow nautilus insists on opening ...

Message posted on the November 6th, 2009 - 9:30 AM ET

Deteriorating responsiveness.

Hi, One phenomenon I've never been able to figure out is why very often responsiveness of a DE, in this case Gnome 2 and KDE, deteriorates over time. It's not on all machines/distros, but I've seen it quite often and I do notice it on my Ubuntu ...

Message posted on the March 7th, 2012 - 10:14 AM ET

Testing Fedora 13 -- good

As mentioned in an earlier post, I've taken the "big" hard drive (160 Gigs), removed openSUSE 11.0 from it, and moved it to my main computer. I installed VectorLinux Deluxe 6.0 there (now my main home Linux), but left space for CentOS 5.5 ...

Message posted on the September 6th, 2010 - 7:10 PM ET

School visitor

School visitor I was managing a school visitor yesterday. It proves kids are smarter than school administrators at drawing up IT decisions. My job for the day was to show how my working day is spent. So first step, I power up Linux PC and start ...

Message posted on the July 16th, 2011 - 6:53 AM ET

Read some testimonials about an operating system

Guess which shitty OS elicited the howls of anger and frustration? = "hibernate hangs...ethernet disabled...no network...shutdown hangs...CD won't write...printer won't print" "problematic...fails miserably...nautilus ...

Message posted on the June 11th, 2010 - 11:26 AM ET

nautilus slow