Hi guys,

I'm not new to Linux, I've been using Linux as my main system for over 5 years, although most of the distros I used were Ubuntu like.
Said with that, I decided to learn ethical hacking and decided to switch to Kali for security purposes and it has everything preinstalled.

I switched over 3 days ago and I'm happy with everything besides speed (responsiveness), it seems as though I'm running Windows with a Gnome theme, its horribly slow compared to Linux Mint, Ubuntu or even OpenSuse. Another thing I noticed was that there's no "Software & Updates" option in settings like in Ubuntu where I could usually select proprietary drivers, I've checked in Synaptic and it's not there either. Also my bios doesn't list my HDD with Kali nor does Grub start automatically, I have to manually set the EFI boot directory every time I boot up.

While typing this, another problem started, my screen freezes occasionally and kind of glitches with white lines across the screen for a second. Note that this is a clean install, I have completely formatted my HDD and installed Kali, with /home on a separate partition.

Device: Asus X451MAV
  • Intel® Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz × 2 (TurboBoost upto 2.60GHz)
  • Intel® Bay Trail
  • 2 GB Ram


uname -a:

Code:
Linux kali 4.6.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1kali1 (2016-07-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
top:

Code:
top - 19:33:55 up 1 day, 55 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.38, 0.46, 0.67
Tasks: 184 total,   1 running, 183 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  2.5 us, 12.5 sy,  0.0 ni, 83.1 id,  1.8 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem :  1937076 total,   132720 free,  1353592 used,   450764 buff/cache
KiB Swap:  3960828 total,  3208272 free,   752556 used.   258648 avail Mem 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND     
 1236 carlyle   20   0 2689548 738808  22632 S  10.3 38.1 109:12.97 gnome-shell 
 1134 carlyle   20   0  277048  20976   8768 S   0.7  1.1  55:38.95 Xorg        
14201 carlyle   20   0 1171968  25952   8320 S   0.7  1.3   0:53.40 transmissi+ 
17355 carlyle   20   0   42736   3552   2976 R   0.7  0.2   0:00.27 top         
  477 message+  20   0   44644   3352   1888 S   0.3  0.2   0:23.84 dbus-daemon 
  516 root      20   0  623576   5736   4248 S   0.3  0.3   0:11.97 NetworkMan+ 
  815 Debian-+  20   0 1688552  38960  13112 S   0.3  2.0   0:37.88 gnome-shell 
 1289 carlyle   20   0  454688   4448   3736 S   0.3  0.2   0:02.61 mission-co+ 
 9174 carlyle   20   0  910004 110748  47400 S   0.3  5.7   1:10.22 chrome      
12323 carlyle   20   0 1103128 122572  59036 S   0.3  6.3   1:44.51 chrome      
22670 carlyle   20   0  565136  18100   9664 S   0.3  0.9   0:02.55 gnome-term+ 
    1 root      20   0  202692   4756   3476 S   0.0  0.2   0:04.76 systemd     
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd    
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:11.23 ksoftirqd/0 
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:+ 
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   4:56.12 rcu_sched   
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh
Any help would be greatly appreciated, if you need any other info please ask.

Thanks.