Wireless causing UI freeze

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Hi everyone. I’m coming from an Arch install on my laptop (ASUS FX505DY), everything was smooth sailing until I installed the dkms drivers for the wifi+bluetooth card (realtek rtl8821ce) and rebooted, since then everytime I open any program window, or other things like using the yakuake pulldown or even expanding the system tray or checking other windows’ tooltips freezes the whole UI for a while (up to 15 seconds when opening ffox, for example), except for the mouse pointer which still moves.
Video of the freezes
Problem stays after reboots, but goes away if I uninstall the driver. Goes without saying that it comes back if I install it again.
The driver itself works fine, I’m posting this using it.
I’m at an absolute loss at this, if anyone can point me at what should I look into would be nice.

The dkms install didn’t show anything weird.

sudo ./dkms-install.sh
[sudo] password for cfsa: 
About to run dkms install steps...

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/v5.5.2_34066.20190614/source ->
                 /usr/src/rtl8821ce-v5.5.2_34066.20190614

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
'make' -j8 KVER=5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64...........
cleaning build area...

DKMS: build completed.

8821ce.ko.xz:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64/extra/
Adding any weak-modules

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Finished running dkms install steps.

My fpaste output
Happens on kernels 5.5.5 and 5.5.6
If any other info is needed please say so.

EDIT:
It also stops freezing if I turn off wireless/activate plane mode.

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