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Plasma 6 (Wayland) is laggy on my laptop running on 6th gen i5 (discuss.kde.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that Plasma 6 (Wayland) feels overall slow on my laptop with Intel i5-6200U.

Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.90.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.246.0
Qt Version: 6.6.0
Kernel Version: 6.2.0-37-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 5559

I only got this laptop recently from a friend so I have yet to test on X11 session. The only other time I've spent using Plasma was on a RTX 3060 Ti in a VM so it didn't feel as slow.

Is that normal?

Created bug report 477959.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The smallish memory and CPU usage difference between plasma 5 and xfce etc. isn't worth the drop in usability.

Plasma has seriously improved its performance over the years.

Now Plasma 6 might be a memory hog or just a mm early beta. No judging before it's out.