I have a Legion Y530 with an 8300H processor and 32 gigs of ram with an intel NVME drive. I was running Pop_OS! and everything ran smoothly as butter. But I wanted to give Clear a try since I like differences that Clear has and it was optimized for Intel, or so I thought, but it doesn’t seem so with my set up.
Upon first boot up, it seemed like it took forever to boot to log in screen. Then when I tried to go to the settings it just hung there. I had multiple things do that until finally, they decided to work. So I restarted my laptop and while bootup was faster it was nowhere near as fast as Pop and sadly Windows even boots faster. I still had a bit of hang on getting into settings, Firefox worked well though. and once settings came up it and were closed the next time I went to it, it was definitely snappier. After letting it do its thing the OS felt good. I then pretty pleased with the way the OS was reacting so then I tried to install some programs via the software store. Maybe it was me being impatient but I tried to install steam let it sit for like 30 seconds and it never got past 0%
I really wanted Clear Linux to be my go-to daily driver for Linux but I just can’t with the way it’s running on my laptop. If anyone has any ideas why it’s acting up on my laptop and how to fix them I would be grateful.
I think this is due to Flatpak runtimes being installed. The first time you download a Flatpak app — in this case Steam — Software installs the runtimes too. When you see 0% probably there are some dependencies in the install queue before Steam itself.
You should just wait until they are installed. The next Flatpaks — if they not require different runtimes — will be installed without the initial delay.
The other issues might just be related to first opening of programs. As you noticed, the following times they will open faster.
Hey @Philip, welcome to the community! Sad to hear that. I’ll let the experts answer. I’ll be here listening though, in case of you need any further help.
I have a small laptop with NVME drive. I used F2FS (with arch, cpu doesn’t support clear) and saw amazing performance gains. Does clear support F2FS as root filesystem?
F2FS as the root is not something I’ve tried but it isn’t specifically supported (and by that I mean tested for being the rootfs). It could work though in theory.
Would it be possible to disable the Nvidia graphics? I don’t plan on gaming when booted into clear. I was just testing out the software store and picked steam to download.
I wanted to boot into Linux so I don’t get distracted by wanting to play games. Also I wanted to see if my battery life would be better while working on school work.
I can already see a difference, boot time has increase dramatically as well as response to get to the settings… Everything is snappy as can be and I’m quite happy with the performance now. So if there happens to be anything else wrong that can speed it up that would be way awesome!
The minor remaining improvement would be to disable kernel debug printing by removing the initcall_debug boot option. This may speed up boot and allow us to look at the complete dmesg output.
Thank you this helped me as well, after installing the Nvidia drivers my ThinkPad P52 behaves at a normal speed, instead of acting like it’s being submerged in mud.
The only further issue I encountered is after rebooting, I got a Gnome “Uh-oh, something went wrong, please contact your system administrator” error. After a clue I found from googling around, I tried going into the BIOS and switching the graphics device from “Hybrid” to “Discrete”. After that settings change, my computer booted without problem and works like a dream now.
