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.
Fedora ain’t any better if trust issues are relevant.
In general, I don’t think you’ll find any distro running Nvidia the same as Windows. I had Fedora 41 a couple of months ago and flickering issues with my Gtx1050. No matter what drivers I tried, and I was debugging for a month, spent 50 hours on it with no solution.
After that tried Tumbleweed Slowroll, and it was a bit better. In the end, bought a new PC because it was time. Now running with AMD because I was told they have less issues than Nvidia. Turned out to be true in my case.
I wanted to run Tumbleweed with KDE so I adapted hardware specs to make it work.