Cinnamon has laggy animations and window movement/redraw

[simple ruin]

what if you disable all effects

[charred wigeon]

if the issue is on the two laptops, don't mention the workstation.

run inxi -SCGx ; uptime on both afflicted computers and show result.

[simple ruin]

I mentioned the workstation because the animation lag occasionally happens there too.
Just not the window movement lag

[simple ruin]

Will get to this later

[charred wigeon]

ok

[pliant narwhal]

Can you share the inxis of the laptops with Cinnamon running

[simple ruin]

Sure, just let me quickly boot into the iso

[pliant narwhal]

@charred wigeon any idea why Cinnamon was lagging on all his laptops?

[charred wigeon]

maybe some extension

[pliant narwhal]

it was default Cinnamon apparently

@simple ruin

[simple ruin]

Yes, literally clean install

[charred wigeon]

put some CPU monitoring APPLET in the panel, one which shows a number or graph at a glance

when it's lagging take note of that applet

[pliant narwhal]

question is which should he put

[charred wigeon]

simple CPU monitor

and possibly the last one for frequency (clock rate) as well