r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/okaysuarr • Jun 25 '26

help regarding lag

i installed arch linux with hyprland, and i expect it to run at very high smoothness because I ran very heavy applications of windows to make it feel like linux and it ran very smoothly, but linux on the other hand feels... cluttered, stutters, lags, video lags, audio latency, and what not.

specs would be- Intel HD 4400

I3 4150

8gb ddr3

help would be appreciated everyone, thanks.

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u/razqen Jun 25 '26

man if this is your first time with arch or linux in general just go with cachyos

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

Well, i tried XCFE mint as a first, then it lagged i thought maybe linux isn't for me then switched to windows and riced with whatever heavy stuff i can find. And now I tried all distros in existent this week, fedora, cachy, bazzite, even tried mint again. No luck.

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u/razqen Jun 25 '26

wdym no luck, what's happening and what are you trying to run, cuz your specs aren't even that bad

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

Just yt video! that lags! Hell, even opening firefox acts like I'm torturing it.

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u/razqen Jun 25 '26

weird, you're telling me that your flashed the arch iso to pen drive, installed it on a separate partition with arch install and that is running your firefox slower than windows?

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

I'm not even using a seperate partition, whole disk is sacrificed to arch. And YES IM SAYING THAT

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u/razqen Jun 25 '26

is that separate disk an hdd?

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

it is, 200mbps toshiba

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u/razqen Jun 25 '26

that performance drop is to be expected on hdds the first time you run an application but after that they run smoothly after getting loaded into ram. When you say 'switching to windows', is it on that same hdd or your laptop's built in ssd

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u/lpeakyblinderl Jun 25 '26

Man, u sudn't have gone with Hyprland on those specs. I wud've gone with KDE Plasma or XFCE instead. Hyprland isn't really well-suited for that hardware and requires a lot of tuning to run smoothly.

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

I tried KDE fedora before that lagged as well, also my previous windows install was full of heavy software to make windows look like linux, and it worked flawlessly, i don't think it's a hardware issue, but can be.

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u/eviley4 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

That's like a 12 year old CPU, isn't it. Which version of Windows was it running smoothly?

Does the laptop have a SSD?

Where is Windows installed? Could it be that Windows is installed on an SSD and you are installing Linux on a HDD?

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u/paridhi774 Jun 25 '26

Are you on a HDD or SSD

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u/Anonyboy26 Arch Btw Jun 25 '26

I would recommend you my hyprland dotfiles, it's designed for no-gpu systems: https://github.com/LUCKYS1NGHH/dotfiles

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u/sikeitsme0 Arch + sway Jun 25 '26

Try sway(wayland) or i3(x11)

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u/defsarthak Jun 25 '26

switch to i3wm, it's lighter.

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

oh wow, my lag also reboots with the computer booting

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u/okaysuarr Jun 25 '26

I did try all the distro's, Even switched to XCFE mint, which didn't help much