On 09/17/2015 11:30 PM, Xen wrote:
Always check correct driver installation.
Right. I just think it cannot be expected of any user to go beyond the correct driver, and also to specify any correct settings or peculiar options that the driver does not set itself. That should be the driver's job, you know. It knows the chipset.
Currently I am on Windows 10. It is blazing fast, on this same laptop. Animations are wickedly fast (they were also designed that way) and load times are very low, perceived load time is also lower because it seems MS Windows loads applications in stages, you get to see the window quite soon even when other stuff is still loading. Notepad execution is just instant, Wordpress at least still twice as fast as the best I've got from KWrite.
Well, I have wickedly fast load times with all applications, no complaints, kde is blazingly fast on my 7 year old laptop ... KDE3 that is... I've run both Windows 7 and various versions of linux on the box. The load time differences are pretty much 'nil', and in fact, in a pure systemd environment, I can boot in a fraction of the time it takes to load windows, including starting full bind9 dns, dhcp, apache, postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, etc. It all boils down to a good configuration. Where you can spend $100 bucks on an OS and then sit on hold for hours to get a semi-competent tech that can hopefully solve your issue or help you with a config, with linux the price you pay for the OS is learning how to configure it. Given the symptoms you describe, it sounds like there is either a display driver issue forcing all the rendering to be sent to the CPU instead of being handled by the GPU or similar generically used module or config issue that is causing KDE to spin it wheels on application launch. That is the best anyone can do until you can provide an actual error message or log file snippet hinting at what the specific problem could be. I don't know what kind of video chip you have, but make sure you have the correct driver for it. You can literally see a 100 - 500% improvement in desktop response on the video driver alone. Look at `/var/log/Xorg.0.log` along with `lsmod` and verify you have to proper driver loading for you video card. As root, type `dmesg` and pipe the output to a file and look at the system startup and see if there are any issues that stand out. You say kwrite is slow? Then open konsole and type 'kwrite' at the prompt and see what kde messages and warnings are written to stdout or stderr. If there are any -- post them. That's pretty much the starting point for chasing things down. There is no reason your desktop should be significantly slower than on Windows. Just the opposite is generally true. If your isn't, then it time to roll up your sleeves and work off a little bit of the cost of the OS ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org