Hi all,

I have Toshiba A205-S5804 (Pentium Dual-Core, 1GB RAM, GMA X3100) with EasyPeasy based on Ubuntu 10.4.
Everything works great but Window Manager has really poor performance. So bad that it is barely usable. Performance increases after doing System Testing, specifically Video tests. Test starts, I'm going through all steps, laptop's monitor blinks, displays color bars, detects video modes etc and after the test Window Manager works as should, fast and smoothly. Video modes detection runs xrandr_cycle and I think that this little fella fix WM performance till reboot. How to keep it like that? Can somebody help me?

i do not know easy peasy.
ubuntu 10.04 - is that what you meant? - has been dead, EOL, for a long time.
please install a current distro.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Hi 3mski and welcome to LQ,

That 1GB RAM will not take you far. You'll have to stick to older distros, but this might also be risky as these older distros might not have security updates anymore. On top of that, with such hardware I'm afraid VM will not run very smoothly at all. Maybe it would be better to try a dual boot.

sorry but this is incorrect.
imo, the best solution is to choose a current distro that caters for old & low-specced hardware.

Thanks for your replies.
The main reason why I chose that old distro is that no other older or newer distro works with this old piece of junk. All other Linux distros hang shortly after start from live USB or in the middle of the installation. Only an old EasyPeasy based on Ubuntu 10.4 works. But the flaw of this distribution is that it's GUI works as I wrote in my first post.
I don't want to use VM on it, just want to have smoothly working WM (Window Manager, sorry for that short form which confused you previously). I check HDD and RAM, both look ok. I just want to use this notebook for some internet browsing etc. It doesn't need to be secure, it's interface should work smoothly, that's all. It can but I cannot make it persistent. There are some graphic/X settings which can be changed to accomplish what testing tool does. Any ideas folks?

A couple of 32-bit thoughts: My Atom N270-based netbooks seem to run pretty well with recent versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint with Mate, LXDE, or XFCE desktops. What I have found (especially when running Fedora Rawhide and regularly updating the kernel) is that some kernels work, and others just don't. My old P4-based desktop is also pretty picky, but seems to be happy with the latest PCLinuxOS (with kernel modesetting disabled).

i still have no idea what easypeasy is.

tried antiX?
"Just"?
the www of 2017 is extremely demanding in every respect.
and there's no way around that, no matter what distro you install.

workarouns exist (use mpv for youtube videos etc.).
again, check out antiX.

It was a netbook-specific Ubuntu spin, circa 2010.