Glitchy/laggy UX on Gnome 44

[Kelltech]

Since Gnome 44, I get a lot of glitches and lag that after several seconds jumps back to usable again. The mouse hangs and screen freezes.

It’s similar to this issue, but not only FF or pdf scrolling, mine is doing this anywhere and everywhere:

GNOME 44 is Here. What’s Working, What’s Not?

The experience of a few days of use is not at all positive. After the update the system slows down and jerks when I scroll pages in Firefox or when I scroll through a pdf file with the mouse wheel. Here are a couple of my posts from the last few days asking for help with my problems, which have not been completely solved. I have never encountered this kind of inconveniences when changing from previous versions of Gnome. At most an extension did not work for a few days while we was waiting for t…

I suspect something in my hardware is perhaps not playing nice with 44, but the question is, how can I begin to narrow that down?

[chikenf00t]

Did you look at this thread?

Slow startup for applications after recent update from gnome fix

Just an FYI after the recent gnome 44 update if some of your application startup times have been long. Removing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome if you have it installed has fixed the issue for me. I am on i3wm not gnome by the way.

[Kelltech]

Interesting, I appreciate the link to the thread. I’m using Gnome DE and not having slow startup times, just intermittent screen freeze and jumpy lag for a moment after. I’ll keep an eye on that thread too though.

[chikenf00t]

Did removing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome help any?

[Kelltech]

I was unsure if it was safe to remove that from a Gnome environment because I noticed the thread had a lot of i3 and KDE users. I’ll give that a try though if it’s safe in Gnome.