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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Cornelius@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Are you using snaps? Snaps are notorious for God awful performance.

[-] wulf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Any Ubuntu affiliated distro is required to use snaps, so Kubuntu will use them. Startup times are terrible, but running performance should be the same.

Another simple distro to try would be either Mint or Pop-OS. Both are still Ubuntu based, but without snaps

Mint's interface (Cinnamon) is similar to Windows, Pop-OS uses a modified GNome

[-] garam@lemmy.my.id 4 points 1 year ago

Fedora KDE is also a great option. Bleeding edge but stable.

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