Recently I dual booted with windows and garuda (Dragonised Plasma).
I really enjoy it so thank you for the team for making a really cool OS, however I seem to get some weirdly laggy animations. I searched everywhere and people with Nvidia cards sometimes have this issue.
Example of animations: Switching between virtual desktops, opening calendar (top right), changing application size from maximised (so Meta+Left sometimes takes a little time).
I have the "video-chaotic-nvidia-dkms-tkg" driver installed, I have tried to remove it but I can't seem to do it as it breaks dependencies
My CPU runs at around 4.2GHz on 12 threads sometimes, and most applications work really well, it is just these animations that lag
The problem is that you install the wrong driver for GeForce GTX 1060.
It’s Pascal architecture, nvidia-390xx-dkms is the correct driver.
And 390 and lower branches are not supported for the driver you installed.
To fix this:
Garuda Settings Manager → Hardware Configuration
Untick all the pipes
Auto Install Proprietary Driver
Check your kernel headers you have with
pacman -Q | grep headers
After Install the kernel headers:
sudo pacman - S linux- … -headers
dkms now will be triggered and install your driver automatically
@Th0usT you should try changing compositor settings.
First disable compositor to see if there are no problems.
If it solves your problem, then enable again and try available options, like XRender.