Poor GUI performance, what am I missing??

[mjmo]

Hello

New NanoPiR5S delivered a couple weeks ago.

I have tried various desktop installs on Debian
- the official bullseye desktop image via eflasher
- bare bones xfce on xorg
- KDE plasma on Wayland

I am getting laggy, glitchy gui performance in all cases, (seemingly) identical symptoms for all of them. My desktop environment needs are v light: putty and chromium, and the ability to vnc in to use them, but I haven’t even gotten as far as testing vnc because the DE itself is almost too laggy to use.

Mesa/permafrost/lima packages are installed on Debian, but checking for that is just based on initial googling. I have very little graphics knowledge. Am I just missing some important dependency or is something else going on?

Thank You!

[ArmbianForSBCs]

Hello

New NanoPiR5S delivered a couple weeks ago.

I have tried various desktop installs on Debian
- the official bullseye desktop image via eflasher
- bare bones xfce on xorg
- KDE plasma on Wayland

I am getting laggy, glitchy gui performance in all cases, (seemingly) identical symptoms for all of them. My desktop environment needs are v light: putty and chromium, and the ability to vnc in to use them, but I haven’t even gotten as far as testing vnc because the DE itself is almost too laggy to use.

Mesa/permafrost/lima packages are installed on Debian, but checking for that is just based on initial googling. I have very little graphics knowledge. Am I just missing some important dependency or is something else going on?

Thank You!

If Armbian doesn't work for you, you can skip others.

[mjmo]

If Armbian doesn't work for you, you can skip others.

That doesn’t really answer why the manufacturer’s own desktop image (bullseye+LXDE) barely runs on the device…

[ArmbianForSBCs]

If Armbian doesn't work for you, you can skip others.

That doesn’t really answer why the manufacturer’s own desktop image (bullseye+LXDE) barely runs on the device…

They make hardware with basic software support. Software is in the domain of customers. You can try our work, but you can also use something else.