My OS 16 Pro feels more slugish than 15.3 Core. How about yours?

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#2

I only have 16 (beta) and now Pro. I can't see any different between the two.

My Specs:
| AMD Ryzen 1700x 3.4 GHz | ASUS PRIME X370-A | 32 GB 2400 Mhz DDR4 | ASUS Nvidia 1070 8 GB | SSD 1000 GB |

#3

Is there a way to turn down the eye candy similar to Windoze "appearance" settings?

#4

Try "Zorin Appearance" and go to Interface and disable animation.

interface
interface762×540 90 KB

#5

Thanks for the tip but I always have animations disabled.

#6

Which video card do you have?

#7

Not entirely sure but a quick web search leads me to believe it's Intel HD 530. My display is running at 2560x1440 with 125% (fractional) scaling.

Update: Yes, the above has been confirmed:

~$ sudo lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
#8

I think it's time to add more ram.

In the meantime, I made the following tweaks to see if it will help:

sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

Then opened sysctl.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

And copied the above two lines into the file & rebooted.

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#9

8GB of RAM is more then plenty to run a Linux distribution, even one that is using gnome, provided you arn't doing anything heavy with the OS. Also I found your post interesting, because most people I have talked to, have reported that OS 16 is snappier then older versions.

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#10

I only have 15.3 Core to compare to. As mentinoed, maybe it's a Pro (Ultimte) vs Core thing.

#11

You could try the core of Z16 and see if there's a different.

#12

Actually, Z16 Pro is now running just fine. The issue is PEBKAC.

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#13

I hate problems caused between keyboard and chair. The last time that happened to me, is a caster wheel broke off, and my chair and I decided to take a dirt nap. Well, lets just say the cat wasn't happy afterwords, and darted out the room. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

#14

Would be good for an admin to delete this thread since the problem was all self inflicted and nothing to do with OS 16.

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#15

Are you sure you want it deleted? It might teach other people a lesson.

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#16

Exactly what I was thinking Storm! Agreed 100% :+1:

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#17

I marked the solution for ya so others can find it. :smiley:

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#18

yeah, I learned meaning of PEBKAC :crazy_face:

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#19

Another is PICNIC.
Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.

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#21

So what happened is I pinned a lot of apps to the Favorites bar, so many apps that I didn't notice that some were hidden behind the system tray. Anyway, one of those apps was uhhhh, a very busy torrenting app...

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#22

It's fascinating what we forget when things run in the background.

Hey rj, what movies are playing tonight? Lol