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TWEAKING SYSTEM COMPONENTS

So you’ve got rid of all the junk files and streamlined your boot-up process. You’ll have already noticed a leap in performance. If your appetite if whetted, roll up your sleeves and dive right in to make your installation even faster. Many of the default apps in distros ship with settings to suit most popular use cases. Several popular ones include tweakable parameters that you can use to make them run more quickly.

Gnome run

Gnome is arguably the most popular desktop environment for desktop distros, such as Ubuntu and Fedora. The desktop is bulky and although it has lost quite a bit of flab since v3 was released in 2011, there is still a lot of scope to make

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