I’ve never really questioned it much, because I thought it was relatively normal, but using manjaro has never been very fluid for me when things have to load. I know it sounds imprecise, but opening Dolphin takes like 10-15 seconds and then it works great, also okular, firefox or even the manjaro main menu.
This also happens with games. When I have to load a map in csgo or other game, it takes an awfully long time (more than it ever took in windows) loading the map, but then tha gameplay itself is very fluid.
The only thing I have non-standard in my installation is that I have /var in its own partition in a hdd drive because I read somewhere it was better. I use nvidia non-free drivers.
The system is a 7gen core i7, nvidia1050ti laptop version and 8gbs ram.
I recently questioned all of this when I had the chance to use ubuntu in a school pc and it was so fast and responsive that made me think there’s something wrong with my laptop.
Does anyone have any suggestion? Thanks a lot.
EDIT: As someone pointed out, maybe the /var in a separate partition is not the best idea. If there’s nothing weird with the inxi output now, could reinstall manjaro without the /var separate partition maybe do something? How would I do it without losing information and configuration of things installed?
I update with the output of the inxi command:
Kernel: 5.10.70-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=48313523-3d79-4512-a060-6cee9bff637c rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=3dd24e0e-9056-4731-a854-9d15aa817ad5
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GL62M 7REX v: REV:1.0
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16J9 v: REV:1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: E16J9IMS.318 date: 05/22/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 36.3/42.4 Wh (85.7%)
volts: 12.2 min: 10.8 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.69 GiB used: 6.96 GiB (90.6%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: EA
cache: L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 44817
Speed: 1294 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1294 2: 1223
3: 1875 4: 1341 5: 1369 6: 1701 7: 1697 8: 1331
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0302
Display: x11 server: X. Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.70-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:10a1
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 574.39 GiB (49.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: THNSNJ256G8NY
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0101 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 236.47 GiB size: 231.76 GiB (98.01%)
used: 32.67 GiB (14.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 48313543-3d79-4552-a060-6cee9bff637c
ID-2: /home raw-size: 919.79 GiB size: 904.35 GiB (98.32%)
used: 532.57 GiB (58.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A
uuid: 040c4572-90c9-4eb8-8aa3-982855fe262e
ID-3: /var raw-size: 11.72 GiB size: 11.47 GiB (97.90%)
used: 7.15 GiB (62.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A
uuid: 153e2370-8d5d-4f47-8291-d6fc101f6426
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 2 GiB (100.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 3ddf4e0e-9056-4731-a854-9d25aa817ad5
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Razer USA DeathAdder Chroma type: Mouse,HID,Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 1532:0043 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 1-7:6 info: MSI steel series rgb keyboard type: HID
driver: gt683r_led,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 2mA
chip-ID: 1770:ff00 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-10:4 info: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
Device-4: 1-12:5 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129
class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 54 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 300 Uptime: 13h 32m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 249
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 alt: 8 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: apt: 0
pacman: 1995 lib: 504 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: kitty
inxi: 3.3.07