I’m not sure if this is normal, but it seems that Plasma 6 (Wayland) feels overall slow on my laptop with Intel i5-6200U.
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.90.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.246.0
Qt Version: 6.6.0
Kernel Version: 6.2.0-37-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 5559
I only got this laptop recently from a friend so I have yet to test on X11 session. The only other time I’ve spent using Plasma was on a RTX 3060 Ti in a VM so it didn’t feel as slow.
Is that normal?
Created bug report 477959.
Have you tried X11 yet?
( It should just be a matter of logging out, selecting X11 in the bottom righ corner, and logging in again)
Suffice to say, sluggish performance on your hardware shouldn’t be expected, so something must be wrong.
In KDE System monitor you can try adding a new page to show CPU clock speed , to check if the Dell is not throttling. (Dell laptops throttling on the wrong charger is definitely a thing, but I’ve only experienced on more powerful laptops)
Since you installed pre-release software I assume you don’t mind re-installing, so you could always try Neon Stable with 5.27, Kubuntu 23.10 or another distro entirely, to ensure your laptop is OK.
I didn’t need to. I didn’t boot it up till yesterday to look for other causes, which was when I realized the fan died.