I've been on Windows since ever and my dabbling in SysAdmin work encouraged me to give Ubuntu a try.
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my ThinkPad T590 with the following specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8565U
- GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620
- STORAGE: 440GB SSD
- RAM: 16GB DDR4, 2400 MHz
I kept my Windows 10 installation and shrunk its partition by 250GB to make room for Ubuntu so I can have a dual boot setup. I created three partitions:
- 60GB ext4 mounted
/
- 20GB swap area
- The rest is ext4 mounted
/home
Everything went well and I started installing the software I need - Visual Studio Code, Slack, Google Chrome, Spotify, etc...
I noticed that the Ubuntu desktop experience is a bit more sluggish than the Windows one. Also, the fans in my machine would turn on for the smallest things. On Windows, I have no problem running all of the aforementioned software at once without the fans starting. On Ubuntu, I just start Slack and everything's on fire.
That's surprising to me since I have pretty modern hardware, after all. My issue is similar to this reddit post. I started digging for graphics drivers, but I couldn't find any. The ArchWiki says:
Since Intel provides and supports open source drivers, Intel graphics are essentially plug-and-play.
So... where are these drivers? Are they already installed? Here's the output of sudo lshw -c video
:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:168 memory:c7000000-c7ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:3000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
If I have the correct drivers, why is my machine struggling? What am I missing?
driver=i915
, which is correct. I don't know how many drivers you've expected to have for just one piece of hardware, and why.inxi -F
, and copy/paste the output.