This is purely based on my experience but somehow I think that Pop OS works better on laptops. System76 is a laptop manufacturer so it makes sense they'd optimize for that, I suppose. You may want to give that a try
*also a laptop manufacture
Some distros have always seemed to perform better than others for me. Ubuntu was always lagging, mint has always performed very well. I never figured out why. But some hopping might be the easiest solution.
Open your activity monitor (or hit Ctrl+Esc) and sort by CPU usage. What's your computer doing?
Also, have you installed all necessary drivers? I've never had your problem, so there's a chance you don't have the right drivers.
Could you follow the instructions on https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto , upload a hardware probe and share the link here?
Sometimes one might have issues with delayed opening of GTK apps, but I’m pretty sure there can be multiple causes. All misconfiguration, so it would be weird since you’re on Kubuntu.
Go to terminal and type in top .. Maybe something like fs-miner is chewing CPU cycles? File indexing can sometimes do this.
While I doubt this will work, uninstall something like xdg-portal-gnome if you have it. It significantly increased app startup times on my machine
Gnome portal on a Kde UI?
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Which is why I said it was unlikely. Personally I tried out multiple DEs before settling on one so I had it installed
@Canadian_Cabinet Did you put Linux on a slow hard drive? KUbuntu can be slow on poor speed hdds just like any other operating system.
One more thing to add. Snaps? I heard it takes pretty long to open.
Snaps definitely are slower to open. One they get going, they are fine.
But a little slow to load...
But only the first time you open it, right?
Idk i didnt try it
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.
Snaps have been opening as fast as anything else for months
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