I followed the directions in the link for shutting Tracker off.
System is now running better.

Still no e-mail send, work on that tomorrow. 

Will look at Mint for virtual desktops

Thanks 

Harold

On Sep 22, 2014, at 23:14, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll second ubuntu for desktops. I usually use a server install disk unless I am doing something built on a main iso like kbuntu ect.

On Sep 22, 2014 10:27 PM, "Phil Waclawski" <phil.waclawski@mesacc.edu> wrote:
I myself rather like kubuntu for my laptops/desktop  but that is just my preference.  I love CentOS for servers (well, not sure about 7 yet)....but for desktops...nope.

Phil W

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
If you consider ubuntu run mint instead. Then there is Linux Mint Debian  Edition.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
Not sure if this will help, as I know nothing about Tracker-miner nor CentOS....


Have you tried Debian or Ubuntu?

Mark

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, IscreamKid <iscreamkid@gmail.com> wrote:
Saturday, at the Installfest, despite cautions from Thomas, I installed CentOS on my new computer.

The install went well from the standpoint of reallocating the partitions and getting Grub to recognize both CentOS and Win 7.

When I started working with it I loaded on my files.
Files that took forty minutes to backup took two hours to load on a faster system.
The culprit  seems to be Tracker-miner.

It continues to drag the system down when I am trying to do other things.

I have no idea why I need an application on here to, supposedly help me find files.
In all of the years I have worked with Linux I can think of only three instances where I have used find to locate a file, and it worked nicely, thank you.

Now I have a system that uses all of its resources to track files I will likely never ask for. Grrrrrrrr.

After that the change of Gnome and KDE to eliminate my virtual desktops is unimportant.

Would anyone like to suggest a better distro that will actually run and perhaps has more than four desktops, while running Office Libre, and plays You Tube videos in a browser?

Harold
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