Well, there are different digrees of "slowness" but the Pi gets so slow that it is rendered unusable. Other operating systems run much faster with GUI on Pi like Raspbian and openSuSE. Do you mena that ntp slows down your Pi that much? I have it on all of my machines.

I should add that I can log into the GUI manually by running startx and exec startlxde. I installed the lightdm-razor-greeter and it works too. So it must be the lightdm-gtk3-greeter. But even when I start the GUI in one of the two ways, the Pi becomes incredibly slow and in practice unusable

Hi, I have Arch installed on my Pi but when I try to log in from the GUI, the screen gets dark and connections via SSH or tty are very slow. I run LXDE with lightdm and my greeter is lightdm-gtk3-greeter. I looked at the logs and found that only lightdm.log changes when I try to log in. Here is the ...

I use GParted (from Debian 7) on my PC directly after copying the Arch image to the SD card in order to resize the partitions on the card.

Hi, I use a wireless router for my home network. An external HDD is connected to the router and shared via samba. I have no problem mounting the partitions from my laptop by running the following command: mount -t cifs servername:/partition /partition Where servername is the DNS name of the router (...