For those who have tried to use stata under linux, probably already encountered some issues related to the icons and libpng12 library... while I could get those fixed and stata starts normally and display the icons, somehow, stata takes really long to plot a scatter plot with some 150.000 observations.
I first thought it was a issue with stata, but it works fine under manjaro (arch-based, with gnome 3.34.1).
I also tried multiple releases of stata (mp, se) and also multiple versions (14.2, 15, 15.1)... and the results are the same across all versions: works as expected in Manjaro and veeeery slow in Ubuntu.
- other than plotting, stata seems to run just as fast as in other systems.
- i first thought the issue was related to the libpng12 library. I installed this library in several ways, including using the binary from arch repository, from this ppa as in this tutorial and also manually from xenial's repo.
- also tried in elementaryOS (5.1) and ubuntu 16.04, so it is not a problem only with the 19.10 version.
anyone has any idea what else I could try?
edits (answering to questions)
- cpu: i5 5300U
- gpu: Intel HD Graphics 5500 (i think... definitely no dedicated chip)
- ram: 16gb
comment: with the same computer, it works fine on windows... (on other computer, older one with i5 from 2nd gen, works fine on manjaro)
if I
set graph off, the creation of the plot is normal, but if try to export it to png, it takes really long time (export to eps is rather quick).- while plotting, the Xorg process goes to 90~100% CPU usage (of 1 core). The same happens in wayland (but with XWayland process). Even if graph is not be displayed (window is hidden or when graph is set off and only being exported...)
- it affects several versions of stata (14, 15.1, 16)
