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I found this comment really interesting, thanks for sharing. I guess I could say I'm a power user (long time LAMP stack dev), but I've never gotten my hands di

I found this comment really interesting, thanks for sharing. I guess I could say I'm a power user (long time LAMP stack dev), but I've never gotten my hands dirty with other distros / Desktop Environments other than vanilla Ubuntu. I recently upgraded my PC which now has a decent Nvidia GPU (2070) along with an i7 and 32Gb of pretty decent ram - and yet I'm finding my Ubuntu experience (18.04) isn't particularly responsive. The lag is especially noticeable whilst I'm on a Zoom team meeting and I change windows or adjust window sizes. I'm now wondering whether I should give Kubuntu a try?

deadbunny 6y ago
Are you using the proprietary nvidia drives? The nouveau (ope source) drives are not great.
- herodoturtle 6y ago
  Heya, thanks for asking - I'm not sure to be honest. I just checked my installation notes - and I ran the following when setting up the new rig: sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall Not sure if that answers your question?
windock 6y ago
I have installed KDE on Ubuntu, and it feels much more responsive.
ThePhysicist 6y ago
I don't think this is related to the NVIDIA drivers, personally I just use the integrated Intel graphics on Linux as I don't need 3D acceleration and as the NVIDIA card drains the battery quite fast. As others have said try installing the proprietary driver, maybe that'll fix it. I'm a KDE user since several years though so I don't have much experience with Gnome, I switched to KDE because it had (has?) better support for fractional scaling, which I direly need to make a multi-monitor High DPI setup usable.
pantalaimon 6y ago
Why are you running such an old distro version on new hardware?
- herodoturtle 6y ago
  Yeah you're totally right. Back in the 90s / 2000s I only needed to upgrade my OS every 4 to 5 years or so - and I guess that attitude kinda stuck (in that I didn't consider Ubuntu 18.04 to be all that old - and I figured that it being an LTS version would cover my newer hardware). Anyway I take your point - I think it's time to upgrade to 20.04 :)
joshspankit 6y ago
No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice. They choose to focus more on helping users make connections between input and effect (Click minimize, see an animation of the window minimizing to it’s final position), same goal as OSX. There are dozens of window managers who’s focus is on responsiveness (Xfce jumps to mind) if you want to explore that side of it.
- rstuart4133 6y ago
  > No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice. I always used other desktop environments like LXDE / LXQT. The speed difference you mention was one of the reasons. But now my HDMI port only works under Wayland. So now I use Gnome3 (under sufferance). The difference between speed difference between Wayland and X11 is so big, it blows away the speed improvement LXQT gets you, so Gnome3 is actually faster than the rest now. I presume that will change when more Desktop environments move to Wayland, but for now that's the reality.

deadbunny 6y ago

Are you using the proprietary nvidia drives? The nouveau (ope source) drives are not great.

herodoturtle 6y ago
Heya, thanks for asking - I'm not sure to be honest. I just checked my installation notes - and I ran the following when setting up the new rig: sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall Not sure if that answers your question?

windock 6y ago

I have installed KDE on Ubuntu, and it feels much more responsive.

ThePhysicist 6y ago

I don't think this is related to the NVIDIA drivers, personally I just use the integrated Intel graphics on Linux as I don't need 3D acceleration and as the NVIDIA card drains the battery quite fast. As others have said try installing the proprietary driver, maybe that'll fix it. I'm a KDE user since several years though so I don't have much experience with Gnome, I switched to KDE because it had (has?) better support for fractional scaling, which I direly need to make a multi-monitor High DPI setup usable.

pantalaimon 6y ago

Why are you running such an old distro version on new hardware?

herodoturtle 6y ago
Yeah you're totally right. Back in the 90s / 2000s I only needed to upgrade my OS every 4 to 5 years or so - and I guess that attitude kinda stuck (in that I didn't consider Ubuntu 18.04 to be all that old - and I figured that it being an LTS version would cover my newer hardware). Anyway I take your point - I think it's time to upgrade to 20.04 :)

joshspankit 6y ago

No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice. They choose to focus more on helping users make connections between input and effect (Click minimize, see an animation of the window minimizing to it’s final position), same goal as OSX. There are dozens of window managers who’s focus is on responsiveness (Xfce jumps to mind) if you want to explore that side of it.

rstuart4133 6y ago
> No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice. I always used other desktop environments like LXDE / LXQT. The speed difference you mention was one of the reasons. But now my HDMI port only works under Wayland. So now I use Gnome3 (under sufferance). The difference between speed difference between Wayland and X11 is so big, it blows away the speed improvement LXQT gets you, so Gnome3 is actually faster than the rest now. I presume that will change when more Desktop environments move to Wayland, but for now that's the reality.