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I've been trying to use KDE on and off, but it just randomly freezes on me for several seconds on anything other than an Intel GPU. I was excited to try it with
by AsyncAwait 8y ago
I've been trying to use KDE on and off, but it just randomly freezes on me for several seconds on anything other than an Intel GPU. I was excited to try it with the new open-source AMD drivers, but it still does that.
GNOME doesn't have this problem, so for all its problems, it works for me.
- simion314 8y agoI never hear of this issue, if you want to try again open a bug or ask for help on reddit or support sites/forums. Most issues related to graphics are flickering and artifacts and KWin has many options you can try, including not using 3d effects. (Wayland is still not ready)
- AsyncAwait 8y agoI'll definitely try to isolate this more and file a bug report, I currently only use KDE actively on my Intel GPU laptop, but I like the DE itself very much and would like to switch to it everywhere, potentially, in the future.
- simion314 8y agoI would first try to set kwin rendering backend 1to Xrender, this uses the CPU and not OpenGL/GP so you can see if the OpenGL drivers are the issue. For me on NVIDIA control panel app I have more options for OpenGl and those helped me. This page has some variables that let's you set some things and bypass kwin autodetection https://community.kde.org/KWin/Environment_Variables https://community.kde.org/KWin/Environment_Variables I know it sucks that it does not work out of the box, at least you don't have Nvidia.