I’m having a laptop with NVIDIA GPU, after a fresh installation, everything runs smoothly. But right after installing akmod-nvidia, everything became a bit laggy. For exmaple, launch dolphin for the first time after rebooting would take about 2 seconds or more, but before installing the driver, it would only take half a second.
I have no idea how could a GPU driver slows down something like launching an app that doesn’t use NVIDIA GPU, I’m wondering if anyone have encountered the same issue, not sure if it’s a common issue or just me.
I’m using KDE Wayland btw, but I didn’t start the session in NVIDIA.
You should provide the laptop model and details of the graphics hardware so others with similar hardware can compare experiences. It would also be helpful if you can quantify loss of performance compared to published results for similar hardware, see GPU benchmarks in Linux.
I don’t think it’s about my disk speed, because everything was snappier before installing Nvidia Driver.
By slow I mean slow to launch the apps themselves, not doing something inside the app, like opening files or executing commands.
BTW, apps in my virtual machine can launch faster than my host machine