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cant wait for plasma6 (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

hmm strange, maybe some applet but when I was using it on my 3rd gen i7 laptop it never went silent and the CPU usage could spike to even 20% when idle

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Maybe something wrong with the GPU in your setup?

I could see kwin using a lot more CPU if the compositing fell back onto software rendering instead of hardware rendering

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

3rd gen i7 is outdated

Even a 8th gen i7 struggles to keep cool and quiet compared to Ryzens from 2019 onwards running the same stack

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I'd go with some applet as the culprit. I use a Haswell i7 laptop and it's quiet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I run Plasma 5 on a 2nd gen i7 laptop and it's idling just fine and quietly most of the time with no such spikes unless I have several apps running, including a web browser with a plethora of tabs.