I’'m using a quite old laptop that, once installed Manjaro, came back to life. Unfortunately, after some months of regular use it became always slower and now it is quite hard to use. I have very little knowledge of Linux and I would like to know if there is something wrong in my settings.
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(as that makes both our lives much easier)
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What you see it quite normal:a Core2 Duo with 2GB of RAM and a 5400 RPM HDD is just slow nowadays,
However the specifications for a 2089W7X allow for 8GB maximum RAM so I’d try to find that second hand.
I’d also buy a new 256GB SSD and install that inside the machine and hook up the old HDD with a USB cable and adapter and dd everything over.
That way, you should have a brand new machine that will give you another 3-5 years of for about 150€…
P.S. You will not believe what your machine is still capable of after executing #4 and #5 above!
Hi @Krullino and welcome to the forum!
I’m just here to reinforce what @Fabby wrote.
I have a laptop with a dual core, 6th gen core i3 and it originally came with 4gb of ram and a 500gb HDD.
Almost a year ago I got tired with it just being slow and purchased more RAM and an SDD and I’ll tell you: my life changed!
You can’t imagine how much performance you leave behind when you don’t have enough RAM and your HDD is holding you down.
That said, if your computer has a DVD drive and you don’t use it, there are some pretty cool adapters that allow you to fit a second disk in you pc (at the cost of loosing the DVD drive obviously). This way you can use the HDD as a general storage media and have the OS booting from the SSD.
As for your problem, I experienced a similar issue with an old tablet lately and I ended up just reinstalling, but my advice would be to try and clean you system before recurring to drastic measures: check and clean the pacman cache, look for old and unused programs, maybe give pacman a clean following this article on the wiki!
Idk if this would contribute to any kind of slowness or not (e.g. some packages not playing well with an old kernel), but kernel 5.5 has been EOL (end of life) for a year now. You should swap to kernel 5.4 or 5.10
Other than that, like the others have said, more RAM and an SSD would make it much faster than any kernel change.
Just as an addition to what has already been reported by other companions.
I use an even lighter environment and yet the manjaro is somewhat slow on my machine.
However, I do not blame the system in any way, but my hardware, which is the slowest of history, see:
inxi -SMDm
System:
Host: pccreto Kernel: 5.11.14-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: LXQt 0.16.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Positivo Informatica SA product: C14RV01
v: 1.00.05_SIM serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Positivo Informatica SA model: C14RV01 v: SIM
serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.00.05
date: 10/03/2012
Memory:
RAM: total: 3.74 GiB used: 1.26 GiB (33.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 106.34 GiB (35.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BPVT-00JJ5T0
size: 298.09 GiB
I’ve marked this answer as the solution to your question as it is by far the best answer you’ll get.
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so that the next person that has the exact same problem you just had will benefit from your post as well as your question will now be in the “solved” status.
for about 150€…
