Ever since I updated to Ubuntu 11.10 my computer has been getting hot and seems like the resources have been more hogged causing my computer to constantly sound like its doing something intense.
I've disabled Unity and am using Gnome session fallback.
Is there anyone else with this issue?
- Best way to explain this is that I feel as if 11.10 is using a LOT more resources than 11.04 did - and I would like to know of a way to make it run smoother and less of a hog
Yes, there are issues with 11.10. You can solve some of them by paying close attention to your system, whereas others are very hard to fix. Fortunately, most of these issues are gone Precise Pangolin (to become 12.04 in April) so we have good times ahead. If it's a big problem for you, then I would recommend that you install 10.04 if that's possible, since that will be upgradeable to 12.04 when it's released. Or, if you're a bit more adventurous, you can upgrade/install 12.04 now. It is under development, so you'll have to watch out a little bit when you install upgrades, but there have been rather few issues with it. On both my desktop and laptop, 12.04 is much better than 11.10. Battery time on my laptop has gone from 3.5-4 hours to more than 5 hours.
If it's not too big a problem, and you don't feel too adventurous, then I would recommend just waiting a little while and upgrade to 12.04.