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[engineer]

New user here to Linux and Mageia. I am attempting to get away from MS and join team Linux. It is a daunting task..

I completely installed Mageia on to an older laptop computer last night: 32 bit install from a USB stick. It has a 2 ghz processor 1 meg of RAM and 50 gig hard drive. (Yes it is an older machine)

Once I got Mageia up and running it was doing pretty good, however now my CPU stays maxed out all the time and it's running SLOW. When I open Ksysguard to see what processes are comsuming resources, it shows that it's mainly ksysguard that maxes out the CPU. ? I updated the software but, its still running slow. Is there a way to switch from the KDE invironment and use xfce? I only got the KDE option during install and with this old computer I need all the resources I can get.

Also, I've looked around the site but can't seem to find away to get my wifi working. It recognizes my broadcom modem; I get the message "unble to find network interface for selected device." Is there a driver that I need to update, I tried to find a way to install this broadcom BCM 4318 driver but I don't know my way around the system well enough.

Those are my main issues now. Thanks for the help!

engineer.

[engineer]

I got the wifi working! Next gotta figure out why this thing is running so S L O W !!
Thanks!

engineer

[martinw]

I assume you meant 1GB RAM, not 1MB. Even so, that's probably not enough to run KDE well - you'd do better with XFCE or LXDE. See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Desktop_environments for details of how to install and use these. You will need to have configured your software repositories first, as described in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_management.

[engineer]

Thank you!

Downloading the XFCE components now.

I appreciate the help.

engineer

[doktor5000]

As you asked for the XFCE part and the slowness in the separate thread, please mark this thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks