I installed Zorin OS Core today. And it was laggy a bit from the start. Then it stopped and now it started again. When I’m in apps and when I scroll it laggs. Especially in Firefox. I reinstalled a fresh PC and I don’t have dual boot. My specs are:
Intel Core i5-6600
2x8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM
3TB HDD
256GB SATA III SSD
GTX 1060 6GB GPU
When I had Windows there were no such lag. And my memory usage is anywhere from 4GB to 6GB and CPU usage from 20% to 40%. So that’s not the problem.
gnome-shell uses most RAM about 955 MiB
I checked those settings and its set to latest drivers, nvidia-driver-460 (proprietary, test)
I have one GPU, GTX 1060 6GB from MSI
Can you provide the output of inxi -t cm? Since 4~5GB RAM is being used by other processes, do you mind closing them and just running the command with no other applications running?
Additionally, after checking your updater settings, check your Firefox version in Synaptic.
With your machine specs, even at 60% CPU, you should not be seeing lag like you are describing.
Did you confirm all lag stopped after terminating Discord?
I just installed a fresh copy of Zorin OS 16 Pro and all the sudden it just lags even when I rebooted my PC, I do have dual boot from windows because I have Adobe products in windows.
Here is my specs:
Dell G3 G3590
Intel i7 9750h
16gb ram
GTX 166P Max-Q