Slow on Manjaro Arm i3

[HaxNet]

Hey guys - I feel like the laptop is super slow even if it is just opening a browser. CPU spikes up to 85%-95% just to load. I can't imagine 4GB ram and 5GB of swap is still that slow even at the beginning of starting up the laptop.

Anyone is having problem with this or is it just Manjaro i3 that is causing it?

[brzegorz]

Hey guys - I feel like the laptop is super slow even if it is just opening a browser. CPU spikes up to 85%-95% just to load. I can't imagine 4GB ram and 5GB of swap is still that slow even at the beginning of starting up the laptop.

Anyone is having problem with this or is it just Manjaro i3 that is causing it?

I had similar feelings with both i3 and xfce. For some reason Gnome feels much smoother, and I think that KDE too. I didn't investigate if that's really the case, but it looked like it when I've tested various environments on Manjaro.

[HaxNet]

Hey guys - I feel like the laptop is super slow even if it is just opening a browser. CPU spikes up to 85%-95% just to load. I can't imagine 4GB ram and 5GB of swap is still that slow even at the beginning of starting up the laptop.

Anyone is having problem with this or is it just Manjaro i3 that is causing it?

I had similar feelings with both i3 and xfce. For some reason Gnome feels much smoother, and I think that KDE too. I didn't investigate if that's really the case, but it looked like it when I've tested various environments on Manjaro.

I think I will try KDE and see if it does the same. I just saw a twit that someone playing a full on FPS game on PBP without lagging so it makes me question

[brzegorz]

Hey guys - I feel like the laptop is super slow even if it is just opening a browser. CPU spikes up to 85%-95% just to load. I can't imagine 4GB ram and 5GB of swap is still that slow even at the beginning of starting up the laptop.

Anyone is having problem with this or is it just Manjaro i3 that is causing it?

I had similar feelings with both i3 and xfce. For some reason Gnome feels much smoother, and I think that KDE too. I didn't investigate if that's really the case, but it looked like it when I've tested various environments on Manjaro.

I think I will try KDE and see if it does the same. I just saw a twit that someone playing a full on FPS game on PBP without lagging so it makes me question

Doom&Quake work really well on vanilla maps. With custom maps it depends, but some can bring a decent x86 machine to a crawl anyway. OpenMW is quite tough, a vanilla city with half-of-cell view distance can bring PBP to 10-15 FPS. Quake 3 Arena works well, there have been OpenArena PBP events. Doom 3 has been reported as being a hopeless slideshow. That's the gist of Pinebook capabilities from FPS perspective; ).