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!

  • abobla@lemm.ee
    3·
    7 hours ago

    That’s odd, I remember using Debian 12 without this issue when it was released, I later switched to an Arch based distro (Endeavour OS) to experiment with how it would run games (they ran better, I think some games were freezing on Debian 12 stable).

    I can’t say anything about Fedora, never used it.

    Do you have more information about the specific driver you installed on Debian 12 and Fedora 42? Like the version number? Maybe the neofetch result of your computer specs too.

    Sorry for not being able to give more details.

    • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Thanks for your answer! I had 535 installed on Debian 12 and 570 on Fedora 42. This is the result of fastfetch (neofetch is EOL). Let me know if you need any more info or if you think you have something that might help. Thanks!

      System Details:

      • OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)

      • Host: Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ACH (82JQ)

      • Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64

      • Uptime: 30 mins

      • Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

      Hardware:

      • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 4.46 GHz

      • GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

      • GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Series

      • Memory: 4.30 GiB / 27.25 GiB (16%)

      • Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

      • Disk (/): 23.09 GiB / 243.14 GiB (9%)

      • Display: 2560x1600 @ 60 Hz

      • Battery: 60% [AC Connected]

      Software Environment:

      • DE: GNOME 48.1

      • WM: Mutter (Wayland)

      • Theme: Adwaita

      • Packages: 2490 (rpm), 12 (flatpak)

      • Shell: bash 5.2.37

      • Terminal: Ptyxis 48.1

      • Network: 192.168.2.14/24 (wlp4s0)