Bookworm on a new laptop

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Bookworm on a new laptop

#1 Post by bjvca »

Hi,

I recently installed Debian because I like the philosophy and I want a stable system. I would not consider myself a beginner though, as I have been using Ubuntu since time immemorial.

I must say that I am a bit surprised-to avoid using the word disappointed-with the performance of Debian. While I like the lean look, my laptop fan seems to be on much more than I remember from my Ubuntu days (generating some level of anxiety). Also, when watching for instance youtube videos, the graphics seems sluggish. I had stock firefox crash a few times already, in addition to random slowdowns of the entire system.

After some research, I learned that this could be due to the fact that my hardware (I have a lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12) may be too new for Bookworm. Indeed, I had to install the latest kernel from backports and get drivers for my wireless card from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... mware.git/.

In short, I wonder how I can find a balance between stability and support for recent hardware and have many questions on this, like will I be stuck with a sluggishly performing system until Debian 13 comes out (and I worry even that may not solve all the problems)? How can I improve performance without making debian unstable? What should I start looking at to find out performance issues are due to use of wrong drivers, etc?

Thanks

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Re: Bookworm on a new laptop

#2 Post by FreewheelinFrank »

There is an updated Mesa stack in Backports too.

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=160536

You may need to enable the Xe driver in the updated kernel.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo ... n_(Gen_12)

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Re: Bookworm on a new laptop

#3 Post by bjvca »

I did a complete reinstall and also installed the mesa stack from backports and all my issues disappeared. No more sluggish behaviour and I hardly hear the fan. Not sure what the fix was now (the reinstall or mesa) but I don't care, I am very happy now!

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