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Linux way way slower than Windows? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I jumped ship from Windows to Kubuntu last night, and It's mostly been pretty good. However my general performance of the computer has been abysmal. Like it takes upwards of 5 seconds to open anything. All of my hardware seems to be running at max speeds, so I have no idea why it would be so sluggish? It's as if I'm running on 2gb of ram and a cpu at like 1.5ghz. My specs are:

i7-8700k at 4.7ghz max Amd Rx 6750xt 16gb ram at 3200mhz Linux is on an m.2

Any ideas? This is practically unusable for any normal operations, let alone any gaming.

Update: So it seems like my CPU is being throttled to it's min of 800mhz because the temp is just below 100c. Not sure why it's so high because I never got that high even in intensive gaming on Windows

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One more thing to add. Snaps? I heard it takes pretty long to open.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But only the first time you open it, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk i didnt try it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

From what I have read it's only the initial phase when running the Snap for the first time. The package is setting up the environment and does some things only once. And the first iteration of the Snap concept was very slow, which is improved a lot. Didn't use Ubuntu in years, so cannot test it myself at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Snaps definitely are slower to open. One they get going, they are fine.

But a little slow to load...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Snaps have been opening as fast as anything else for months