I’ve bought the laptop (“Acer Swift Go 16”) I’m currently using as my “daily driver” end of August 2023, so 9-10 months ago. When I got it, I’ve installed Manjaro KDE on it and was quite happy with it (was already using Manjaro on other Laptops before)
About a month ago, as it sometimes happens with Arch-based distros, my Manjaro refused to boot after installing some updates the day before. I’ve had heard of NixOS and had been wanting to try it for about 2 months already (after seeing the no-boilerplate youtube video about it) and figured this was my sign to do so. Sadly (or luckily for Manjaro) this adventure didn’t go well, and a week later, I was back on Manjaro.
Now the strange thing is, that the same aweful performance I’ve seen on NixOS now also often shows itself with Manjaro. With my previous installation, I never had such performance problems, but know they seem to be everywhere. Kate still works fine almost always (typing this in Kate), but Firefox, Chromium, VS-Code, … all are really horrible to use, especially when I have an external monitor connected. Rebooting after the monitor is connected sometimes helps a bit, but doesn’t make it really okey. Also restarting kwin or plasmashell (with --replace parameter) sometimes makes it better. But also not consistent.
I wonder if this is some regression in the software stack, or some configuration that had a different default a year ago that better suited my hardware - or maybe even some hardware defect?
I have no idea how to find or even search for the cause of this performance problem, and am hoping someone here on the forum can give me some pointers.
$ inxi -F
System:
Host: acer-swiftgo16manjaro Kernel: 6.6.32-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SFG16-71 v: V1.04
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: RPL model: Lionfish_RTH v: V1.04 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 04/27/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 54.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 54.7/65.2 Wh (84.0%)
CPU:
Info: 14-core (6-mt/8-st) model: 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700H bits: 64
type: MST AMCP cache: L2: 11.5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4800:5000:3700 cores: 1: 400 2: 400
3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400 17: 400 18: 400 19: 400 20: 400
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony ACER QHD User Facing driver: hid-generic,usbhid,uvcvideo
type: USB
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: vesa gpu: i915 resolution:
1: 3440x1440 2: 1488x930
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast
platforms: wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.9-manjaro1.1
renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-P)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 drivers: intel surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Device-2: Realtek USB Audio driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB
API: ALSA v: k6.6.32-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: 74:04:f1:dd:3b:fa
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
IF: enp0s13f0u3u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: c0:3e:ba:2e:5c:95
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
driver: vmd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 271.41 GiB (28.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN740
SDDQNQD-1T00-1014 size: 953.87 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 835.41 GiB used: 271.29 GiB (32.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 120.5 MiB (47.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 835.41 GiB used: 271.29 GiB (32.5%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-4: /var/log size: 835.41 GiB used: 271.29 GiB (32.5%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 39.06 GiB used: 75.3 MiB (0.2%)
file: /swap/swapfile
Sensors:
Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.04 GiB
used: 10.07 GiB (32.4%)
Processes: 452 Uptime: 1d 9h 3m Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.34
Thank you for reading,
kind regards,
Thomas
(Assuming you haven’t already tried that).