EasyOS 64-bit running faster in Pi4

I posted today about EasyOS booting up on the Raspberry Pi 4, getting a desktop and sound and wifi working, but everything running incredibly slow:

https://bkhome.org/news/202101/first-bootup-easyos-aarch64-on-pi-4.html

It has defaulted to the "powersave" governor, and the CPUs are running at 600MHz. I bumped that up:

# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/cpuinfo_cur_freq
600000
# echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/cpuinfo_cur_freq
1500000

An improvement, but everything still very sluggish. Then I remembered something about VideoCore graphics on the Pi3, and in file 'config.txt' in the boot partition, I commented-out the line "dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d":

# Enable VC4 Graphics
#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d

# Force arm in 64bit mode. See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1193.
arm_64bit=1

#Enable the onboard ALSA audio
dtparam=audio=on

#load initrd into ram immediately after kernel
initramfs initrd followkernel

The desktop is now quite snappy. haven't tried 'hardinfo' speed tests yet! I suspect they will still be abysmally slow. 

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