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csuszka

I had issues with Mint.
It was super slow on a very potent hardware.
Switched to ElementaryOS, which could handle it much better.

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George

Haven't had any issues with Mint being slow yet, was there something specific you found that was slow? Or just in general?

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csuszka

Nothing specific.

At first it was fine, and then started to slow down very fast, and then froze after an hour of use or so.
We restarted a couple of times, sometimes it loaded fast, sometimes really slow.
We wiped the drive clean, re-installed it, had the same issue.
Then again, and got the same issue.
Tried to look for log files for an explanation, but nothing special came up.
This is where we gave up and installed ElementaryOS.

We believed it may have been something like incompatibility with the hardware, because we had installed it to a Macbook Pro, and Mint worked totally fine on our PC at home.

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George

That sounds really weird, could be an issue with mac compatibility yea. Out of curiosity which version of Mint did you use?

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csuszka

Version 19 (Tara, Cinnamon 64 bit)

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George

Running the same version, weird. I'll look out for the issue. Haven't seen anything reported on it.

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csuszka

It would be interesting to know, and it may help others who run into the same problem.

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George

I'll make an update on the post if i come into any issues, thanks for your input!

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csuszka

Thank you for looking into this