It isnt? I had that too, try to disable Noscript? I use Noscript and ublock too, for some reason KDE Discuss loaded forever in the past, but now works again
Sorry for this. I didn’t check that old laptop till yesterday to check for other issues unrelated to Plasma, which was when I discovered that the fan died.
I’ve been running Plasma on my Intel Skylake I5-6?00U with 8gb RAM since 2015 and its utterly fine, no sluggishness in plasma itself. It’s still using X11 though, on an old Kubuntu LTS.
Plasma isn’t THAT heavy that it should be expected to feel sluggish on that kind of hardware. And contrary to popular belief Plasma isn’t actually that heavy of a DE in terms of resources.
OP might need to try different compositor backends? I remember years ago testing each before settling on whatever gave me smoothest performance (maybe OpenGL3?). Actually I’m not sure if this is even a setting anymore in modern Plasma, or in Wayland
I was merely testing out Plasma 6 on it, and I was just shocked on how sluggish it felt. I recently just got that laptop, so I’m hoping there isn’t some BS where the performance gets hampered by the kind of charger i’m using.
I was just curious if that’s what’s happening at this point in time.
( It should just be a matter of logging out, selecting X11 in the bottom righ corner, and logging in again)
Suffice to say, sluggish performance on your hardware shouldn’t be expected, so something must be wrong.
In KDE System monitor you can try adding a new page to show CPU clock speed , to check if the Dell is not throttling. (Dell laptops throttling on the wrong charger is definitely a thing, but I’ve only experienced on more powerful laptops)
Since you installed pre-release software I assume you don’t mind re-installing, so you could always try Neon Stable with 5.27, Kubuntu 23.10 or another distro entirely, to ensure your laptop is OK.
I have a big gaming desktop and at first it felt kinda slow, but then I found out it was happening because of the previous plasma 5 config messing with things, and the variable refresh rate affecting the mouse cursor movement.
Sorry for this. I didn’t check that old laptop till yesterday to check for other issues unrelated to Plasma, which was when I discovered that the fan died.
I’m running Plasma 5 on my i5 5200U on iGPU on X11 and it’s pretty much stable and solid (it’s not riced a lot though), isn’t Plasma 6 still pre-release?
Sorry for this. I didn’t check that old laptop till yesterday to check for other issues unrelated to Plasma, which was when I discovered that the fan died.
Don’t create a social media hype of something before discussing it with Plasma devs. That’s obviously going to antagonise people, and puts us in an awkward situation afterwards.
Looks like this “vote” is not really official and blindsided the devs a bit.
Did they have an old logo other than the gear and k? Triangles looks decent but sorry bubs and bubettes of kde, none of them are memorable or say kde or plasma to me.
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