I’m looking for a distro that will be able to get the most out of my graphics on an MSI Katana laptop.
Right now I have Debian Bookworm running the Nvidia binary driver, and the graphics lags a bit compared to when this laptop had Windows 11 on it.
I’m playing Final Fantasy XIV, and doing web browsing on it.
I’d like to stay with something Debian based and running Gnome. Ubuntu is not ideal because I have trust issues with Canonical since the Amazon ad debacle back in the late 00s.
Can y’all give suggestions for a distribution that might work better, or some tweaks that might optimize the performance on Debian?
Should I just wait for Trixie and see if that give better performance?
I’m just spitballing for ideas here. Thanks in advance for any advice.
I’d try to invest some time first to fix the issue, before hopping between distros. Unless you haven’t installed anything, in that case, go ahead and just try 5 distros and see which one works best. Idk. Make sure you’re running the 535.216.01-1~deb12u1 drivers or whatever is current in Debian. See if you’re actually using the Nvidia card or a Intel iGPU whenever this happens. Some people have also claimed turning off the GSP firmware helps. You could try both Wayland and X11 and see if it’s the same issue. You could install newer drivers from Debian experimental. Or try Linux Mint Debian Edition if you want something very similar to Debian but not exactly it. And how do you measure graphics lag?
I measured it by playing the game. I’m getting caught in AoE attacks that I was easily able to avoid on windows.