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Performance Issues in POP OS

Jaime Lomas
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Hello everyone. Have been trying an alternative to whats comming with windows 11 so I thought Id give Pop!OS a try. I heard a PC can usually experience some benefits in performance when switching over to a linux based sistem, but it has been the exact oposite for me. Been having performance issues from very standard workloads such as browsing the internet. Is there some kind of driver or software that im missing that may be causing this issues?

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i am not 100% sure but there should be something like "System Log Viewer" among the applications in the system. it might show if it fails to find or run a driver or cannot perform something when it boots or while running an application.

 

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/viewing-and-monitoring-log-files#3-viewing-logs-using-gnome-system-log-viewer

 

 

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16 minutes ago, Jaime Lomas said:

 

I have not, Im completely new to any linux based system, how would I do this?

 

Now that you already have the system running try: 

$ sudo apt install system76-driver-nvidia

 

If the driver doesn't solve it, you could try testing a distro with Xfce, KDE or Cinnamon like Manjaro or Linux Mint, in my system GNOME is incredibly laggy but other DEs work completely fine. You could try booting into one of the mentioned distros on a pendrive, if your pendrive is big enough you could use Ventoy to just throw multiple Manjaro editions .ISO and boot into them to test. If they work fine, you could try to either install the one you liked the most or try fixing GNOME, there are plenty of things you could try if you really want to fix it.

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On 9/12/2021 at 6:19 PM, KaitouX said:

Now that you already have the system running try: 


$ sudo apt install system76-driver-nvidia

 

If the driver doesn't solve it, you could try testing a distro with Xfce, KDE or Cinnamon like Manjaro or Linux Mint, in my system GNOME is incredibly laggy but other DEs work completely fine. You could try booting into one of the mentioned distros on a pendrive, if your pendrive is big enough you could use Ventoy to just throw multiple Manjaro editions .ISO and boot into them to test. If they work fine, you could try to either install the one you liked the most or try fixing GNOME, there are plenty of things you could try if you really want to fix it.

Gave Linux Mint a try and it feels really different, a lot faster. I think Ill start with Cinnamon in order to learn Linux. Maybe Ill give PopOS another chance in the future. 

 

Thanks for the help.

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9 hours ago, Jaime Lomas said:

Gave Linux Mint a try and it feels really different, a lot faster. I think Ill start with Cinnamon in order to learn Linux. Maybe Ill give PopOS another chance in the future. 

 

Thanks for the help.

So it would still seem that the Gefore 970 is support for nvidia drivers 340.* to the current 470.* which seems drivers in that range are served buy Pop_OS as lognas your using the ISO with the correct driver enabled.

It's also possible it's a Gnome related issue, but I dount that's really an issue with a system like yours. Those are typically relegated to older PC's that are underpowered. Alternatively (and this issue seems common with Ubuntu family distros) it could just be the ISO or USB image you got was corrupted, to learn of this you should use the checksum verification system76 and about every other distro these days provides.

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