The usual Manjaro Stable updates. Keep it simple and working. You can grab the ISO from here.
I don’t know where this should go… being a forum newbie I posted to the wrong date, so I am reposting that here:
Decades long user of xfce here… Tromjaro’s version of xfce is oddly more resource heavy (read slow). It stutters, pauses, freezes and hangs in places xfce never has… I want to like Tromjaro (LOVE the marriage of Manjaro and Garuda repos) and will keep tweaking graphics drivers for a bit, but I am frustrated with my lack of technical insight on this (is it maybe open source vs nvidia graphics crapola? No, it loaded intel proprietary drivers… euww
…) I am on an older ASUSTEK laptop (SonicMaster 17inch) with 4GB RAM (yes I need to invest in 12 or 16), but spent two weeks on cachyos/niri with no hitch. idk. Any thoughts on what is/could be going on will be much appreciated. Tromjaro xfce looks great, it just isnt performing for me…
Is ok to post here. Alternatively you can create a new post in Bugs/Help Wanted category.
Can you open Resources (the application) and monitor a bit to see if your RAM or CPU are maxing out? And if so check the Apps and Processes section of it and see what keeps them busy.
It can be totally a mix of the Nvidia drivers and Kernel. You can also try a different Kernel. Open the Kernels, select and install different ones, and on boot press Shift or Esc, I dont remember, to see the GRUB menu and select different kernels.
Let us know how it goes.
Cheers!
Hi just to say hello (hope I’m not disturbing with this) I just installed this release on this machine (see fastfetch in screenshot)
some time ago it freezed after 53 minute, now I use it since at least 1 hour and it goes well, I switched from fedora 43/44 into this GNU/Linux distro as I supposed it’s better for this old hardware.
Greetings from Italy
Leo
Hello! It should run without a problem on this hardware. If it freezes it may not be an issue related to your specs, but some bug or app you have installed, or likely a driver. When it froze, could you move the mouse on the screen I wonder?
when it froze I can’t move the mouse, but maybe it was only slow for some reason as I thought it happened again yesterday, but it was only stuck on something and after few minute it worked again. Do I have to open Firefox tab as less as possible ? Or use another browser like Brave that is lighter
If Firefox runs out of RAM it will close some tabs as far as I am aware. If you mouse also froze it may be due to the graphical driver or even a hardware issue…. try to keep an eye in the resource usage and see if you notice the RAM or CPU as being maxed out.