Moving around the Project tab is a much more sluggish than it is in its Windows counterpart. It takes about 2 seconds to open a folder with less than 5 items in it, whereas in Windows it is nearly instant.
Note: My Linux machine is about 4x times more powerful than my Windows Laptop too.
It’s really fast for me. Is your project located on your ext4 linux partition or on ntfs? I experienced a huge performance drop when I opened stuff on ntfs partitions.
What does your ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log say?
It is on an ext4 partition:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ext4 114434656 83551052 25047624 77% /
none tmpfs 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev devtmpfs 4043632 4 4043628 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 817560 1652 815908 1% /run
none tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 4087784 489192 3598592 12% /run/shm
none tmpfs 102400 36 102364 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 ext2 240972 99201 129330 44% /boot
I am actually starting to notice that it is the entire program that is sluggish.
Does turning off “Auto Refresh” in the settings change anything?
The Editor.log contains entries that let you see the time Unity3d needs to refresh Assets. I asked for an ntfs partition because I experienced big lags and a refreshing time ~5s
----- Total AssetImport time:4,982233s, AssetImport time:0,000000s, Asset hashing:0,000000s [0 B,0,000000 mb/s]
A better value for AssetImport time should be something under 1s or even under 0,1s. If it’s more than that, the Editor feels sluggy and unusable.
Maybe it’s related to something else but I guess it’s worth a check.