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I tried Debian, I tried Fedora for my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro RTX3060: Framerate issues, stuttering in browsers, stuttering in simple 3D programs (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 day ago by sykaster@feddit.nl to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi all,

The quick and dirty questions is: Which distro should I try next?

I tried Debian X11 and Fedora with Wayland, but I did not have a great experience with them for my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro RTX3060. I installed proprietary drivers on both systems since people say that they're better than Nouveau, but the framerate stutters even in simple browser game.

I use some software to slice 3d models for printing, and that one stuttered too. I tried various fixes but none of them worked, and I'd really like to switch to Linux from Microsoft for my daily driver.

What distro can I use to have a better experience? Any advice is welcome, but please make it as specific as possible and if you can, address why that distro would be better than Debian 12 and Fedora 42.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've done some more digging and indeed, the AMD integrated GPU is being used. Optimus seems like a good option, but then apparently I'd have to use x11 as the desktop renderer because Wayland doesn't play nice with nvidia.

As far as I can see, x11 will be deprecated not too long from now?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

OP, as someone who has a very similarly specced laptop:

Install Linux Mint, do a one click install of the Nvidia driver with the mint GUI driver installer, and then open the application that's stuttering from your start menu by right clicking on it, and select 'run with discrete GPU', which will force it to use your Nvidia card.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mark my words, X11 will still be around as an option 10 years from now.
Linux Mint, probably the most popular distro, doesn't even support Wayland in its default configuration, yet.

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wayland's nvidia support is improving over time, but although it's becoming less popular, X11 isn't likely to be completely deprecated anytime soon—I'd expect any mainstream distro to still at least have it as an option a couple of years from now, to handle corner cases Wayland still doesn't support.

The last X11 stable version bump on my distro was about a month ago, to 21.1.16, so it isn't like it's abandonware or anything.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, that's good to know. So I can just install x11 on my Fedora no problem whatsoever?

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Provided Fedora has the appropriate packages (and I expect they do), I can't see why not. But see if there's any distro-specific documentation on switching first.