Fedora 17

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:59:28 +0100
Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have now migrated to Fedora 17 (clean install) and configured and
> installed most of what I need. Though I think everything looks very
> good my computer is considerably less responsive than under fedora 13.
> I haven't worked that much yet but emacs in particular is very slow.
> Incorporating 5 messages into MH-E can take a couple of seconds. My
> hardware is a MacBook Pro 5,2, I'm running nvidia drivers. Anyone
> knows of something I can do to get it a bit more speedy?

Throw out Gnome 3 and use Xfce as the desktop. That should get you back a
ton of memory and video bandwidth.