Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the same time, what does it mean for your distribution to be fast? For example, Ubuntu 21.10 switched the default compression for packages to zstd, which […]
Depending on what you perceive as snappiness, it is because of misconfiguration.
If you perceive response time of desktop enviroment snappiness, you need to configure desktop server(xorg-server, kwin_wayland, xwayland) and compositor(or disable it) to run in real-time mode. Maybe there is also “prefer smoothness” option in you desktop enviroment settings like on KDE.
If you play games, then migrate to X11. Games don’t know how to enable tearing on wayland. And in general X11 seems to work better with games.
I only know of real-time kernels, which allow to measure/calculate the maximum response time of an application. This is important for critical processes, like braking in your car, but decreases performance slightly rather than increase responsiveness.
Depending on what you perceive as snappiness, it is because of misconfiguration.
If you perceive response time of desktop enviroment snappiness, you need to configure desktop server(xorg-server, kwin_wayland, xwayland) and compositor(or disable it) to run in real-time mode. Maybe there is also “prefer smoothness” option in you desktop enviroment settings like on KDE.
If you play games, then migrate to X11. Games don’t know how to enable tearing on wayland. And in general X11 seems to work better with games.
What do you mean with real-time mode?
I only know of real-time kernels, which allow to measure/calculate the maximum response time of an application. This is important for critical processes, like braking in your car, but decreases performance slightly rather than increase responsiveness.