System turns sluggish at times after standby

Hi, I’m on the latest openSUSE Tumbleweed on KDE Plasma 6. My laptop is an ASUS Vivobook S 14 Flip TN3402YA. I am running both KDE Plasma and SDDM in Wayland mode.

This issue has gotten just a tiny bit better, but has appeared ever since I installed Tumbleweed here.

A bit of time after my laptop goes to sleep, it’ll take up to 8-12 seconds to wake again. This isn’t too much of an issue; however, once it does, there’s a chance that the system becomes “sluggish”. As in: the refresh rate becomes lower, I believe somewhere 20-30Hz? while the system settings report 60. Sound also becomes choppy from what I’ve seen.

There are some times where I see that same issue happens for just a few seconds after startup, possibly for heavy load?
Logging out and back in has not resolved the issue.
Previously, I’d used Debian 13 on Plasma 6.3, and this issue had never appeared.

Does anyone know what’s going on? If there’s a way to troubleshoot it? or a solution/issue to address? Thanks, hope to hear something soon.

So I just made the “lag effect” disappear by setting the proper time and disabling NTP in YaST and KDE settings???
(I hadn’t mentioned, another thing that happens is that for some reason time shifts ahead by 2 hours)