Hello everyone,
I have been a Manjaro user for many years now and never encountered similar issues. I can’t really figure out what is going on, so I hope that someone here might be able to help me out.
I have recently obtained a Thinkpad X1 Extreme with an i9-9880H @ 2.30GHz (listed as 16 cores), 32 GB memory and an NVidia GeForce GTX 1650, so I would consider this a really powerful setup. Nonetheless, I am sometimes experiencing issues once the CPU load increases slightly. For example, PyCharm becomes extremely sluggish, and when I push the Windows-key, it takes a few seconds until Gnome shows me the overview. I notice that this issue seems to become more noticeable when I connect an external 4k monitor.
I suspect that my GPU is not set up correctly, or that there might be issues with OpenGL. I previously used a laptop without dedicated GPU and PyCharm ran way smoother, but I am not sure how to verify those things. I don’t mind my GPU running permanently if this means an increases performance. The GPU drivers definitely seem to be installed:
mhwd -li INT ✘
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime 2020.11.30 false PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
and it seems like OpenGL is fine too:
glxinfo ✔
name of display: :1
display: :1 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
I would appreciate any comments. Maybe my expectations are just to high or I should try LXDE.
Thanks a lot!
Jan