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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.

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

engineer

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.

Thank you!

Downloading the XFCE components now.

I appreciate the help.

engineer

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