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Strange. I am also on Nvidia, but only a light Gimp user. Do you have more detail as to what triggers the pause or is it any export? I just tried png -> jpg and it was instant.
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I suppose I am. It may also be because I'm running a System76 Oryx Pro from circa 2017-ish with "older" hardware and disabled Intel graphics (Nvidia only).
I also disable a lot of the "fancy" stuff like animations in KDE. I don't care much about having "cool" stuff vs. having a solid working desktop setup. I do use the compositor, but it hasn't really been too much of a problem after I stopped using OpenGL and just stuck with ancient but fairly solid XRender. OpenGL definitely gave me more fits, even if it's supposed to be better.
Strange, I'm not a heavy user of GIMP, but I haven't had terrible experiences with it in KDE. Granted, I'm not exporting and immediately trying to do something else with it. One of the great things about Linux being so customizable is that not only do you make it "your own", but your problems also become "your own". :D
That's one part I've definitely had oddities with, but when I get something for nothing, I can't really complain all that much. I don't do it on my personal laptop, but when I was using Linux on my work laptop, I'd swap between "work" user and "personal" users using multi-X sessions and it would be problematic switching between them.
In the past i did like you, by using XRender and composition pipeline for vsync.
Anyway, support for opengl is ok; not great on nvidia due to nvidia itself, till the point that instead of disabling the intel igp, i've then setup a prime render offload system, using nvidia just for gaming (yes, sacrifying about 5% performance).
My haswell igp provided snappier desktop than a 1060, really, and i'm not even considering power consumption issues due to nvidia blob.
Then i switched to amd/mesa and never looked back.
Last edited by kokoko3k on 10 August 2021 at 1:12 pm UTC