I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop, a ThinkPad-11e, which has a Celeron N2940 processor and 8gb of RAM. The intentions were to familiarize myself with Linux and eventually hopefully fully transition (or at least mostly transition to Linux-based). I am also learning programming and had the idea that using Linux would be... "better." I'm not sure how or why exactly I had this thought but it seems appropriate.

So I have installed it and it boots up and runs fine every time. However, I haven't used it much. So far all I have gotten around to is some web browsing but Firefox keeps crashing? I get the "unresponsive" script and I just wait a couple seconds and it catches up. This is if I have like a couple tabs open or something. This has already done away with my patience in trying to use it if I can't even lightly browse the web. Did I do something wrong?

My laptop has a 128gb SSD and I partitioned 40gb for Ubuntu. When I was installing, I simply selected the option to "install alongside Windows" and it seemed to automatically take up that unallocated space. But, I did (or thought I did) a good amount of research before installing and I seem to have missed the part where I do the "swap." I never specified any value for swap space. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I think Firefox getting held up on just a couple of tabs (no other applications running) can't be right. I thought Ubuntu/Linux in general was supposed to be "lighter" than Windows?

I'm glad I finally installed but I feel like something isn't right. I can't even use it because it's too slow (for browsing the web at least, I really haven't used it for anything else). If anyone can offer some help it would be much appreciated. Thanks

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