Lag while typing in Whonix 18?

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I’m sorry, there’s supposed to be lag while typing in Whonix 18?

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Yes. See:

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In Whonix 18 and even back on 17, there has always been some slight lag with opening new tabs, some slight lag with the mouse movement as well, like you know how you open menus and whatnot in the TOR browser, well there’s some slight lag with this, some slight lag with the mouse, when it comes to opening menus and right clicking and and selecting “open in new tab” and whatnot.

It’s hard to explain without being able to show you but there’s always been some lag in Whonix.

Just recently I decided to fire up the regular vanilla TOR browser on my host OS which is Ubuntu 24.04 and it was shocking to use a TOR browser which had no discernible lag. No lag while typing. No lag with the mouse movement. No detectable lag at all. And it was amazing! It was liberating! It was like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

Does kloak make mouse movement slightly laggy in Whonix? This lag with the mouse and opening and closing menus in TOR browser, is this being caused by kloak?

Or is it just me?

I mean there’s just all around some slight lag in the TOR browser on Whonix 18 and back on 17 too. In TOR browser, just opening new tabs, opening new webpages, opening menus, mouse movement, typing, there’s some slight lag to doing all these things. Is this normal?

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Now I do have an older machine. So is it cause my PC is old?

Just an FYI, my PC is quite old. It was built in 2015 my PC specs are

AMD FX 4300 quad core CPU (which was released in 2012),

AMD Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5,

16GB DDR3 ram,

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 motherboard which was released in 2013. It’s got an SSD. And I have my PC hooked up to my 65 inch TCL TV.

Oh and for gateway, I’ve got it set to 1 core and 512MB of ram so it opens in CLI mode.

I gave workstation 2 cores and 4GB of ram.

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Find out, try it out, test, click: Stop Kloak

Typing lag is expected.

And in Kloak broken after release-upgrade there’s no typing lag, because kloak isn’t running for the reporter after a release upgrade, which is unexpected.

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