18.10 Optimize UI on Asus laptop with dual graphics
Background
Being a Windows user, that uses Linux features 80% of the time. I appreciate how Windows UI is polished with minimal design, small crispy fonts, fast and smooth animations. All the drivers are polished and work perfectly.
Using an ASUS laptop with a dual graphics - Intel/Nvidia. 16GB Ram, Core i7, 500GB SSD.
I really appreciate all the tools running much better on Linux - Docker, Git and many other tools (e.g. orchestration AWS, Minicube). However I can't stand the unresponsive and laggy Ubuntu UI (which is also an important part of the workflow).
Goal
Is to install Ubuntu 18.10 and make it as fast and robust as possible.
Progress
Have tried 3 times installing and tuning Ubuntu 18.04 from scratch. Tried 18.10 1 time.
Problems
Using Nvidia drivers (Ubuntu native 390), recommended 410 and beta 415 gives a result much worth that Windows. The UI is less responsive and more laggy (even the UI-tuned 18.10).
Also after using the system for some time it seems to become more and more laggy.
Are there any recommendations how to make the UI as crisp and smooth as possible?
- Turn of Nvidia completely and use Intel?
- Use Bublebee (Optimus)?
- Use some other drivers/technologies (Mesa, CUDA)?
drivers nvidia graphics
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
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Background
Being a Windows user, that uses Linux features 80% of the time. I appreciate how Windows UI is polished with minimal design, small crispy fonts, fast and smooth animations. All the drivers are polished and work perfectly.
Using an ASUS laptop with a dual graphics - Intel/Nvidia. 16GB Ram, Core i7, 500GB SSD.
I really appreciate all the tools running much better on Linux - Docker, Git and many other tools (e.g. orchestration AWS, Minicube). However I can't stand the unresponsive and laggy Ubuntu UI (which is also an important part of the workflow).
Goal
Is to install Ubuntu 18.10 and make it as fast and robust as possible.
Progress
Have tried 3 times installing and tuning Ubuntu 18.04 from scratch. Tried 18.10 1 time.
Problems
Using Nvidia drivers (Ubuntu native 390), recommended 410 and beta 415 gives a result much worth that Windows. The UI is less responsive and more laggy (even the UI-tuned 18.10).
Also after using the system for some time it seems to become more and more laggy.
Are there any recommendations how to make the UI as crisp and smooth as possible?
- Turn of Nvidia completely and use Intel?
- Use Bublebee (Optimus)?
- Use some other drivers/technologies (Mesa, CUDA)?
drivers nvidia graphics
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
Ubuntu (imho) has become fairly bloated with things you don't need. For a fast snappy system, i'd suggest building from the ground up (gentoo, lfs, arch). Barring that you might try running a different DE other than gnome such as xfce(<- this one is rather minimal IIRC) or KDE (fscK winDows Enviornment :D )
– j-money
Feb 5 at 12:52
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Background
Being a Windows user, that uses Linux features 80% of the time. I appreciate how Windows UI is polished with minimal design, small crispy fonts, fast and smooth animations. All the drivers are polished and work perfectly.
Using an ASUS laptop with a dual graphics - Intel/Nvidia. 16GB Ram, Core i7, 500GB SSD.
I really appreciate all the tools running much better on Linux - Docker, Git and many other tools (e.g. orchestration AWS, Minicube). However I can't stand the unresponsive and laggy Ubuntu UI (which is also an important part of the workflow).
Goal
Is to install Ubuntu 18.10 and make it as fast and robust as possible.
Progress
Have tried 3 times installing and tuning Ubuntu 18.04 from scratch. Tried 18.10 1 time.
Problems
Using Nvidia drivers (Ubuntu native 390), recommended 410 and beta 415 gives a result much worth that Windows. The UI is less responsive and more laggy (even the UI-tuned 18.10).
Also after using the system for some time it seems to become more and more laggy.
Are there any recommendations how to make the UI as crisp and smooth as possible?
- Turn of Nvidia completely and use Intel?
- Use Bublebee (Optimus)?
- Use some other drivers/technologies (Mesa, CUDA)?
drivers nvidia graphics
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
Background
Being a Windows user, that uses Linux features 80% of the time. I appreciate how Windows UI is polished with minimal design, small crispy fonts, fast and smooth animations. All the drivers are polished and work perfectly.
Using an ASUS laptop with a dual graphics - Intel/Nvidia. 16GB Ram, Core i7, 500GB SSD.
I really appreciate all the tools running much better on Linux - Docker, Git and many other tools (e.g. orchestration AWS, Minicube). However I can't stand the unresponsive and laggy Ubuntu UI (which is also an important part of the workflow).
Goal
Is to install Ubuntu 18.10 and make it as fast and robust as possible.
Progress
Have tried 3 times installing and tuning Ubuntu 18.04 from scratch. Tried 18.10 1 time.
Problems
Using Nvidia drivers (Ubuntu native 390), recommended 410 and beta 415 gives a result much worth that Windows. The UI is less responsive and more laggy (even the UI-tuned 18.10).
Also after using the system for some time it seems to become more and more laggy.
Are there any recommendations how to make the UI as crisp and smooth as possible?
- Turn of Nvidia completely and use Intel?
- Use Bublebee (Optimus)?
- Use some other drivers/technologies (Mesa, CUDA)?
drivers nvidia graphics
drivers nvidia graphics
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
asked Feb 5 at 11:45
0leg0leg
1063
1063
Ubuntu (imho) has become fairly bloated with things you don't need. For a fast snappy system, i'd suggest building from the ground up (gentoo, lfs, arch). Barring that you might try running a different DE other than gnome such as xfce(<- this one is rather minimal IIRC) or KDE (fscK winDows Enviornment :D )
– j-money
Feb 5 at 12:52
add a comment |
Ubuntu (imho) has become fairly bloated with things you don't need. For a fast snappy system, i'd suggest building from the ground up (gentoo, lfs, arch). Barring that you might try running a different DE other than gnome such as xfce(<- this one is rather minimal IIRC) or KDE (fscK winDows Enviornment :D )
– j-money
Feb 5 at 12:52
Ubuntu (imho) has become fairly bloated with things you don't need. For a fast snappy system, i'd suggest building from the ground up (gentoo, lfs, arch). Barring that you might try running a different DE other than gnome such as xfce(<- this one is rather minimal IIRC) or KDE (fscK winDows Enviornment :D )
– j-money
Feb 5 at 12:52
Ubuntu (imho) has become fairly bloated with things you don't need. For a fast snappy system, i'd suggest building from the ground up (gentoo, lfs, arch). Barring that you might try running a different DE other than gnome such as xfce(<- this one is rather minimal IIRC) or KDE (fscK winDows Enviornment :D )
– j-money
Feb 5 at 12:52
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Ubuntu (imho) has become fairly bloated with things you don't need. For a fast snappy system, i'd suggest building from the ground up (gentoo, lfs, arch). Barring that you might try running a different DE other than gnome such as xfce(<- this one is rather minimal IIRC) or KDE (fscK winDows Enviornment :D )
– j-money
Feb 5 at 12:52