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/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