Why does Ubuntu feel so sluggish on my asus 1000HE netbook

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Published on 2009-08-26T05:55:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 22:43 UTC
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I recently purchased a nice asus 1000HE, and installed Ubuntu NBR. However, I'm pretty disappointed with how sluggish it feels. I'm wondering if I maybe need to install a closed-source graphics driver - it feels similar to how my work laptop performed before I installed the restricted nvidia driver on that machine.

[EDIT] In case it's any use:

pete@eliza:~$ uname -a
Linux eliza 2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc #43 SMP Mon Apr 27 16:06:05 MDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

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