I have a McBook Pro (2014) with thermal paste that has been changed recently alongside the battery, I've wiped out McOS and installed Mint as soon as I picked it up.
My specs aren't that bad I'd say:
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System: Host: Talisman Kernel: 5.13.0-27-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro11,1 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-189A3D4F975D5FFC v: MacBookPro11,1
serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: Apple
v: MBP111.88Z.0146.B00.1804111138 date: 04/11/2018
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.9 Wh condition: 78.2/74.8 Wh (105%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-4578U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 4096 KiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 750/3001 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: intel resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Iris Graphics 5100 (HSW GT3)
v: 4.5 Mesa 21.3.4 - kisak-mesa PPA
Audio: Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Broadcom and subsidiaries 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-27-generic
Network: Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
driver: wl
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: 80:e6:50:1f:6a:fc
IF-ID-1: ipv6leakintrf0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A
mac: 7a:87:11:29:72:97
IF-ID-2: proton0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Drives: Local Storage: total: 610.18 GiB used: 244.03 GiB (40.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: SSD SM0512F size: 465.92 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 28.91 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 57.30 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB model: SMI USB DISK size: 58.05 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 458.00 GiB used: 198.90 GiB (43.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 346 Uptime: 1d 20h 38m Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 6.61 GiB (42.6%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
So I've installed and deamonized auto-cpufreq (https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq)
Then I've also installed and daemonized mbpfan (https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan).
Now, even after that I still had screen tearing issues and the system being slow.
So I've installed mesa-utils and followed the following sequence:
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sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
sudo mkdir -v /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
echo -e 'Section "Device"\n Identifier "Intel Graphics"\n Driver "Intel"\n Option "AccelMethod" "sna"\n Option "TearFree" "true"\nEndSection' | sudo tee /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
However, I still can't play 1080 px videos and can't perform any kind of video editing as well which is a shame because I have good specs.
I've tried with Olive, KDENlive (with proxy even!), Openshot... nothing works. Playing 1080 p video is plain impossible, laggy as hell.
Someone told me to install
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sudo apt install intel-media-va-driver-non-free
Look I'm even using XFCE4 instead of Cinnamon to try to save as much resources as possible and yet... now I wonder what to do.
Can someone please pintpoint me in a direction to learn how to troubleshoot and dissect properly my problem so that I can improve my setup and be able to do some video editing eventually?
I was able to edit 1080 px videos without any issues on a laptop Windows 10 which had lesser specs (8G RAM dual i5 core)... I feel sad to discover that Linux is much slower than Windows on a more powerful laptop, for sure we can fix that right?
Thank you!