The Linux Thread

[Narekatsi]

I do think you mean window manager rather than distro here, but will say a bit more below.

I meant both. Sometimes some distros will introduce their own functional tweaks to a certain window manager, so I was covering both bases.

Your problem is likely that you're using the discrete GPU & ignoring whatever on board performance GPU your laptop comes with.

No discrete GPU in my laptop.

I finally had the chance to try the latest Plasma desktop version as part of the KDE neon distro, and I think they nailed it! Over 90% percent improvement. I can scale in 5% increments, and whatever value I picked, it didn't introduce an instant headache. So there is hope with Plasma 6, I'll just have to wait for a more stable distro to bundle it, as KDE neon breaks things here and there with their latest rolling updates.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in.

 

[Thefinalepic]

I've been slowly migrating my desktop to Fedora Workstation away from Arch as I have far less time these days to maintain and administer a system that I want to just get work done on. Bluetooth drivers broke one too many times and I called it a day on Arch.

So far I am very impressed by the sane defaults and also consider it a benefit that when I build servers in the future, I can use something like Alma or Rocky linux and have all the same commands as Fedora. Might even be something for the resume re: RedHat Enterprise etc.