Hello everybody! Since I installed this distro, I noticed that the pc has a weird tendency to lag, but I decided to keep going to see if it was something that would've disappeared with time. 4-5 days have passed, and the lags and freezes are still a thing, especially in my browser (Firefox).
I also noticed that one of the 6 cpu threads is always at 100%, no matter what is actually running on the machine, a single page on the browser, a game or just nothing, it still is at 100% of usage:
It is uncommon to see the powersave tweaks enabled on a desktop system. The primary reason people use powersave tweaks is for extending battery life on a laptop system. This governor may be throttling your CPU and contributing to the laggy behavior you have noticed.
Try enabling the performance tweaks instead, which you can do right from the Garuda Assistant settings tab:
The only options I see which are different from your setup are the two power profiles daemon options enabled, should I disable them?
This is my garuda-inxi:
Something is spamming your journal with (most likely) a recurring error message or series of errors. You can look through journalctl -b to see if anything jumps out at you. Toss it in the PrivateBin if you’d like and we’ll take a peek.
I manually added Timeshift (saw it in one of these “10 things to do after installing linux/garuda”), but it doesn’t seem to work properly or I probably did something wrong, as it doesn’t automatically snapshot n times per day as I selected in the app. I need to manually snap for the app. Was this Snapper better?
Seems like there’s some issue with the kernel…
I put it in the PrivateBin, do I just share the link here or…? Not sure how it works.
I'd try googling some of those error's like how pcie keeps being spammed. Maybe an issue or incompatibility with the kernel and your SSD? Maybe give LTS kernel a go incase it's driver related? Completely guessing here but worth trying some basic troubleshooting.
Doesn’t seem particularly good, anyway for some reason I’m not able to paste the entire text even after selecting all, copying the selection and pasting it… it just pastes around 43 lines of code, that seems really weird. I actually scrolled the file and it was 8000+ lines long, but I can’t manage to copy/paste them.
EDIT: oh boy, there’s actually 8.300.316 (eight million three hundred thousand three hundred sixteen) lines of stuff what the hell, is it normal?
Googling around it seems like it could be a grub problem, as I have modified the default grub with a custom one downloaded from pling some days ago, can this be the issue?
You do not use standard Garuda Linux.
You follow some YT? video.
Not only that, but you destroy something.
You wonder about poor PC performance but now ask for advice here without mentioning these changes in the first post, although you should contact the originator?
I mean, what is standard Garuda Linux? Out of the box freshly installed iso? Than no, I don’t use it. I customized it with icons, themes and a grub theme, didn’t think this would make Garuda Linux “non-standard”. Was it necessary to specify it in the first post? I thought that this was what inxi -Faz was about to be honest, but apparently I’m wrong…
It could be. Post your /etc/default/grub into the thread, or at least the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line.
Whatever you did with Snapper sounds like it might be causing problems, since it sounds like it is broken from the way you described it. Snapper is a major piece of software.
SGS is pointing out that as people are trying to help you, you are slowly revealing different things you have done to modify your system that could be very relevant. We can’t interact with your device and we only have a tiny snippet of output from your logs, so when you don’t announce that you changed system components in a significant way we are left in the dark on some potentially important clues.
I get it, sorry for wasting your time guys, it's that I don't really know if something is important to say or not... I honestly thought that the change on the grub was purely cosmetic, so why bring it up? Once I found out that it might have been a problem I immediately updated it here. And also the Snapper change to Timeshift, I thought I was just swapping an app which took snaps of the system with another one that did exactly the same. I really didn't know that it could've been a problem.
If I had to tell everything I did to fix the problems I faced it would've been a waste of everyone's time, or at least that's what I thought. I also followed this post to solve an issue with my dual monitor setup, is it important to specify that too? And I also had audio problems which I fixed with Alsamixer and Pavucontrol. I use the Sweet theme for Gnome, the same that KDE Dragonized Garuda uses, than I put some custom icons, cursor and I edited the login screen with gdm settings main. This should be everything I did "extra" in this distro.
But I'll just do a new fresh installation at this point, it might be the fastest way of solving the issue.
Thanks everyone, sorry for wasting your time.
No hard feelings @Gioltek, you can probably fix this if you want to avoid reinstalling--it would be helpful to see the rest of your log of course.
I agree that installing a grub theme is probably harmless (paste /etc/default/grub), and I take your point that announcing every possible modification you have made is impractical/impossible.
It is unlikely your monitor configuration is related to this issue, but if Timeshift is not working correctly I would be immediately suspicious.
It could be. Post your 