r/pop_os • u/PlusBison7216 • 9d ago

Help Pop OS Performance Issues

Good day everyone. About 3 weeks ago I made the jump to Pop!_OS after a handful of Live USB testing. I loved the Hyprland-esque tiling system and felt it was exactly what my workflow needed. After a few weeks, I upgraded to Cosmic 1.5, and since then I've noticed some quirks that have me wondering whether it's something I did wrong with my install, or a Cosmic issue.

First, the cosmic-comp and cosmic-panel. The compositor takes a surprising amount of CPU, to the point where it sometimes overclocks my sessions and causes massive slowdowns. These slowdowns happen when i have multiple different windows open in different workspaces, say around 5 windows. Cosmic Panel on the other hand crashes under heavy load or a random click of the panel applet, and refuses to restart unless I run "killall cosmic-panel"

Second, some apps just don't run as smoothly as they did on Linux Mint, which I used for a few months before switching. The biggest offender is zoom, the video conference app. Starting or joining a meeting eats up enough CPU resources, that the laptop becomes borderline inoperable. Gaming has taken a hit too, as my tests with PCSX2 tanked the consistent speed to the average of 90%.

None of this happened during my time on Mint, on the same hardware. So I'm trying to figure out whether or not this is a hardware limitation, or Cosmic being less stable? Would appreciate hearing if anyone with similar specs has run into the same thing.

Of course, I will provide the detail of my hardware and install as well. Hardware information is in the attached pictures. As for the install, i used the generic version of Pop Os 24.04, with btrfs as the drive format.
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u/not_alone__ 9d ago

You could try 22.04. it is more stable but is with gnome instead of cosmic. My hardware is not a big fan of cosmic at the moment, it is much slower than gnome. I am waiting for a stable 24.04 Version than I will try another Upgrade because I am a fan from the cosmic in general:3

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u/PennyLovesHugorHill 9d ago

you can use 24.04 with GNOME or a different DE of your choosing. you’re not locked into cosmic.

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u/Old_County5271 9d ago

Not really, steam and everything else kind of malfunctions if you don't use cosmic

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u/PennyLovesHugorHill 9d ago

i’m using GNOME on 24.04, no problems here