Your Ubuntu is slow?

5 Tips to speed up the system

Linux has always stood out in terms of performance, other operating systems. however, and taking as an example the distribution Ubuntu Linux, many users have complained that from a certain time of use, the system starts to slow down, to As is the case for example with Windows. The resolution of such situation requires attention by the user, who shall proceed to some refinement of the system.
Today we leave 5 tips for those who want to speed up your Ubuntu Linux.

Preload - Start applications faster

The Preload is an excellent tool that runs in the background and that analyzing user behavior and monitoring applications that are frequently used. Based on these analyzes, prepares the preload binaries and dependencies of an application to be immediately executed (just in time), thus shortening the time application startup.

Installation:

sudo apt-get install preload

The Preload does not offer a graphical interface, and after being installed and the system restarts the application immediately begins to to manage the system.

BleachBit – Delete "trash" of the system

One of the problems we normally have with our systems, is the "Accumulate" junk applications that silently and will produce usually are not very popular in directories. To solve this problem, nothing better than a good application capable of scan the system for this "garbage" but it's smart to perform this action. For this purpose, we recommend using the BleachBit.



Installation:

sudo apt-get install bleachbit

Grub Customizer – Change the System boot time

For anyone who installs Ubuntu on dual boot (Ubuntu + meant another operating system), there is usually some parameters that the user like to change. Imagine for instance that you want to indicate which operating system pre-set to start, the moments get the GRUB ((Boot Loader - Manager boot operating systems) available, etc.. If Ubuntu is your system of choice, not because define a reduced time for the boot loader (which by default is 10 seconds). With Grub Customizer, you can easily adjust this parameter tab General, in field Timeout.



Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Ubuntu Tweak – Simplified management of Ubuntu

Ubuntu Tweak is a small utility that is constantly development and allows for a very intuitive setup Ubuntu easily. This is certainly one of the most used tools by users of the distribution of Canonical.



Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

zRam – Improve performance

The zRam is an application that allows you to increase system performance, avoiding paging disk itself. For it is used a block RAM tablet (which functions as cache memory - virtual swap) for paging, instead of the native process.

Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shnatsel/zram
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zramswap-enabler

These are some of the applications / tips that I use to improve the performance of my Ubuntu system. There are certainly many other tips and functions for the same purpose. If they know other ways to improve Ubuntu system performance, share them with us sff.