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Can any of you linuxchads help me out :marseybegging:

Videos and pretty much anything to do with graphics is lagging the system. Idk much about hardware but I assume this is something to do with graphics card driver?

So I am trying to get set up with desktop env and all my experience with linux has been like half a year on terminal thru ssh.

I was able to install Debian 12 by partitioning like 30 or 40 gigs of space on my HP / intel laptop.

So the monitor, mouse, and keyboard worked on initial boot without me having to do anything so this was nice. But from what I have read intel drivers should already come with the default debian install.

Obviously I don't have this issue when booting to windows so I'm hoping it's just a driver issue.

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You gotta know which window manager (aka desktop environment) you're using. There are a hundred out there.

If you're using Gnome (which I think is default on Debian?), look in the graphics settings for something that allows you to choose between 'Wayland' or 'X11' (the latter may be called 'Xorg' or 'X'; i'm not sure). Make sure Wayland is selected, and restart your machine.

I don't want to overload you with information but there are two broad technologies that Linux uses for displaying graphics: Wayland and X11. And Wayland is more suited for desktop computers in the 21st century. X11 is kinda old-fashioned, doesn't necessarily work out-of-the-box, and is harder to configure. Meanwhile, Wayland on an Intel GPU is pretty bulletproof.

That's my first guess as to what's going on.

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I am using KDE Plasma as my desktop env

e: debian help page just tells me to remove the intel driver and use the built in one, so I did & restarted. Already seems to be faster as a bunch of tabs isn't lagging at all anymore and animations stopped lagging.

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btw a lot of people also really dislike wayland. It's one of those nerd conflicts (and imo X is old but functions perfectly well)

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Just checked, it's wayland. I don't recall configuring this at all, all I did was select KDE Plasma when I first installed the OS.

After I removed the intel graphics driver and let it just use the one that comes with the OS everything got much better, so looks like I'm good to go.

It's so stupid fast lmao. Giga+ that on Win I had to jump thru a million hoops to throttle my internet (I use phone hotspot and letting it go full speed would eat the data in a day or less).

While on here a guy already made a dl/ul script called wondershaper in 2005 and I just tell it the kbs I want it set to and that's my internet speed now.

Total Windows death.

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I love Wayland but with some very old hardware or one off GPUs (like a weird embeded graphics chip on a server mobo) it can have issues like this. For most setups Wayland is working perfectly fine by now.


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