Good morning everyone. I installed Opensuse SlowRoll with KDE on my old laptop Acer TM 6392 with 4GB of RAM and SSD. I must say that even Gnome, despite the notebook being from 2009, is supported very well. But in the end KDE is optimal. In my 12th gen intel NUC I have 2 Opensuse Tumbleweed (Gnome and KDE) Linux Mint 21.2 and Fedora 39 beta. My problem is that despite having installed all the codecs, my Opensuse TW installations have lag in video playback. Linux Mint also has lags. The only one immune is the Fedora 39 beta. Before the 12th gen Nuc I had a notebook with an AMD 4500u which supported VMs superbly. What’s missing from the NUC? Wrong drivers or settings?
What can I do? Thanks in advance. Mauro
To check things I typically use the search engine and type in “ vs ” and that then gives me a link to userbenchmark.com.
Would be good to check on the Acer the KDE System Monitor (History page) while doing video playback, is the CPU or the memory close to the limit?
Sorry, I expressed myself poorly. My problems are only with the Intel NUC 12 VMs. The Acer 6392 is fine, despite its age. With the Intel NUC I have lags. With my previous AMD 5 4500u notebook I had virtualized VMs from vmware player and they worked fine. With the Intel nuc I had to remove vmware because it was almost unable to install an OS and with virtualbox I have lags…
Thanks for the clarification, yes that the problem is with the NUC12 was not clear.
There are 15 NUC 12’s, would be interesting to know which one, but even better, share the output of “inxi -bm”
But like I wrote above, also monitoring things using the KDE System Monitor would be a good thing.
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The Intel Nuc is the Intel® NUC 12 Pro Mini PC NUC12WSKi5 with Intel i5 1240P and 16Gb of RAM. I use the KDE system monitor very often. It is also due to the results of this app that I was able to appreciate that the use of Opensuse TW’s RAM and CPU is exceptional. In Gnome it consumes half the RAM of a similar Fedora 38 or 39 system and the CPU is much more stable when idle. In system monitor I have no outliers. Unfortunately I don’t know how to use Inxi…
My Acer Travelmate 6293 has a 15 year old Intel Core2Duo P8400 CPU and a frequency of 2.26GHz. Yet in terms of OS loading speed, YouTube video playback and more, it is at least as fast as the Intel Nuc. And it has no lag in video and audio playback. How is it possible? Where am I doing wrong?
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It’s a command you execute at a command line (as root) , windowed CLI is preferred… open a CLI, type the command and press the Enter key. Then provide the output, including command using the “Preformatted Text” option (in the toolbar).
And don’t forget, Linux / Unix are case-sensitive, so “Inxi” as you typed is an incorrect command, vs “inxi” 
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Hi. Firstly I would like to thank you very much for both your help and your patience. I got my 1st PC in 1998 with Win 98 and immediately installed Linux Suse and Red Hat. That’s what they were called at the time. But now I’ve been without Linux for 13 years. However inxi gives me this result:
System:
Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 6.5.4-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.8 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230929
Machine:
Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A
Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A BIOS: innotek GmbH
v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
Memory:
System RAM: available: 3.81 GiB used: 1.42 GiB (37.3%)
RAM Report: message: No RAM data found.
CPU:
Info: 6-core 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1240P [MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 751
Graphics:
Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.20.0.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.1 driver: X:
loaded: vmware unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: vmwgfx gpu: vmwgfx
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.1 Mesa 23.1.8 renderer: SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000
Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
driver: piix4_smbus
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 65.46 GiB used: 12.17 GiB (18.6%)
Info:
Processes: 280 Uptime: 0h 4m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.27
Try next time to include the command you used to get the output and used the Preformattted Button
Or Ctrl-E to format it like
preformatted text
The inxi output that you shared is not for the NUC12 or it is that you are running a virtual machine on your NUC12?
My problem is with the Nuc 12 with VM VirtualBox. Wmware doesn’t even finish the installation
What is the host OS where you run VirtualBox on?
If you run on the host OS and not in the virtual machine, do you then also have problems?
GOOD MORNING, the host OS is Windows 11 Pro. I’m afraid I have to give in to the evidence. In 40 days I haven’t solved it. I give up. Thanks everyone for the help. HI. Mauro
Updated vmware should be out soon and they will definitely update VirtualBox too. There will be new drivers in Windows from Intel… At my age, without specific Linux skills I can only hope… in time :):)
I think the likely reason is the the VM is given not enough resources but I am not knowledgeable on VM’s so I can not help you further with that.
I provided 8GB of RAM. maximum allowed for graphics: 128Mb. For the SSD I tried to put NVME (my ssd is NVME) but nothing. In practice I tried all the combinations: the result is worse than the current configuration. I went back to 4GB of RAM because the problem wasn’t there.
Thanks anyway. I am very grateful to everyone