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Why are most distros so laggy on my Intel+NVIDIA laptop? [closed]

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Closed as unclear by Quasímodo‭ on May 25, 2024 at 06:46

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I've been distro hopping for years now. I love Fedora and Tumbleweed, but everything I've tried beyond Ubuntu is slow and jumpy, and even Ubuntu lags behind Windows 7, 10, and 11. Are the NVIDIA drivers really this big of a problem?

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matthewsnyder‭ wrote 6 months ago
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I would recommend adding more detail about:

  • Which distros exactly you tried, including version and/or approximate date
  • What exactly is laggy

Nvidia drivers are not "laggy" on every version of every distro, so there's that. However, I noticed that a recent update from KDE 5 to 6 has made KDE itself laggy. But things like games are fine, so it's a KDE problem, not an Nvidia problem.

I'd recommend first trying to establish a good test protocol (maybe graphics benchmark score or FPS a certain game). You can then try running it from different Live CDs and see if there really is a difference. This would determine if the problem is the driver/card, or other software.