How to make Ubuntu faster than ever ? Some tips and tricks to make it faster.

How to make Ubuntu faster than ever ? Some tips and tricks to make it faster.

 

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You wan make your Ubuntu OS faster than ever it was, then follow this article for some tips and tricks.

Topic : How to make Ubuntu faster than ever ? Some tips and tricks to make it faster.

When we use any Operating System then we must consider speed of it. We notice speed when it boots up, when we open any application, any content or do any operation. If it performs as per our need then we say our OS is faster than any other OS. 

But, sometimes we get bored due speed problem because, we don't get work done at right time. So, today i have some tips and tricks for you to make your Linux OS [ Ubuntu or any other ] faster.

Tips and Tricks are followings :  

1. Reduce the default load time of grub boot loader.

By default in Linux distros grub boot loader takes 10sec to load it. So, you have to wait until it start booting [10sec]. By reducing it you took first step towards your OS speed up tips and tricks. So, to reduce it you need to follow these instructions:

• Open your Terminal and write these commands : sudo gedit /etc/default/grub &
• And change GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 to GRUB_TIMEOUT=2. This will change the boot time to 2 seconds. Prefer not to put 0 here as you will lose the privilege to change between OS and recovery options. Once you have changed the grub configuration, use the following command to make the change count : sudo update-grub

2. Manage Startup Applications.

Open Startup application manager and then find application you use rarely and disable it or sleep it for long time to make you OS faster to manage other applications.

3. Install preload to speed up application load time.

To speed  up loading time of your application you need to install preload which manage loading of applications and make it faster than normal loading time.

To install preload type this command on terminal: sudo apt-get install preload

4. Reduce overheating.

Overheating is a common problem in computers these days. An overheated computer runs quite slow. It takes ages to open a program when your CPU fan is running like Usain Bolt. There are two tools which you can use to reduce overheating and thus get a better system performance in Ubuntu, TLP and CPUFREQ.

To install and use TLP, use the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw
sudo tlp start

5. Use apt-fast than apt-get for speedy update.

apt-fast is a shell script wrapper for “apt-get” that improves updated and package download speed by downloading packages from multiple connections simultaneously. If you frequently use terminal and apt-get to install and update the packages, you may want to give apt-fast a try. Install apt-fast via official PPA using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-fast

These were some tips and tricks to make your OS faster than ever it was. Hope you enjoyed this article.