Question Question on different Distros and hardware compatability ?

[hiro928]

so for starters, my specs
GPU: RTX 2080ti
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 2600 Mhz

i have worked with PCs almost my whole life, but am a Linux noob, i have tried out a few different distros including, Mint, Ubuntu, POP OS and Manjaro, and with all of these distros, everything seems to run a lot slower, even stuff as simple as web browsing, but whenever i'm using Windows, everything moves fast and fine, from what i understood Linux is supposed to have so much less bloatware and such, so it should therefore be faster than Windows. is there something i'm missing when setting up Linux? or does Linux just not have very good compatibility with my parts? i would love to get into Linux and break the Windows shackle, especially since gaming wise i just use Steam, GOG and emulators these days which are very well off on Linux right now both natively and with programs like Proton, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ralston18]

Not in my general comfort zone (full disclosure); however, more information is needed.

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Dual boot system? VM?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full, connectivity?

How are the drives/partitions, etc. configured?

 

[hiro928]

Not in my general comfort zone (full disclosure); however, more information is needed.

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Dual boot system? VM?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full, connectivity?

How are the drives/partitions, etc. configured?

standard install, no dual boot or VM

drive is a WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 SSD, and in the past after setting up Linux and transferring all my files over, perhaps about 1/4 full

the drive would be set as a clean blank GBT, and partitioned however Linux does it during setup

 

[Ralston18]

Make and model motherboard?

Which SATA ports are being used?

Check the motherboard's User Guide/Manual regarding the use of SATA ports.

There may be a conflict.

 

[hiro928]

Make and model motherboard?

Which SATA ports are being used?

Check the motherboard's User Guide/Manual regarding the use of SATA ports.

There may be a conflict.

MOBO is an MSI B450 Tomohawk

no SATA ports are being used, the Storage is plugged in the M.2 slot

 

[Ralston18]

This motherboard?

https://download.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe/mb/E7C02v1.5.pdf

[Do verify that I found the applicable User Guide/Manual.]

Doublecheck the installation of the M.2 via physically numbered Pages 31 and 32.

Failing that then work through the User Guide/Manual step by step to doublecheck all other connections, installed components, and associated configuration settings.

 

[Grobe]

everything seems to run a lot slower, even stuff as simple as web browsing, but whenever i'm using Windows, everything moves fast and fine

Is this comparison before (i.e. still on Live desktop) or after actual installation of OS ?

or does Linux just not have very good compatibility with my parts?

Any Linux distro may use a standard kernel or it may also use a custom kernel that may or may not improve compatibility to newer hardware.

Also be aware that different Linux distros have different philosophies around stability vs. compatibility of new hardware. Like for example Debian is at the stable end, so stable in fact that the ISS is said to be running Debian, but also ships with older software and drivers because of that.
In the other end you have Distros like Manjaro and a branch of Debian that is bleeding edge, but also unstable.

Pop Os is from my understanding in the middle of a transition (they're developing their own desktop) so I cannot say where that put it on the scale, probably more on a bleeding edge than stable.

i have tried out a few different distros including, Mint, Ubuntu, POP OS and Manjaro, and with all of these distros, everything seems to run a lot slower,

Ok, I have to dig into this a little more. When you use the term "tried out" - you means actually installing, and if yes - how did you install it (VM, on ssd alone or on ssd alongside with windows) ?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

...... everything seems to run a lot slower, even stuff as simple as web browsing.....

"Seems" is not a measurable metric. What have you actually measured and compared between Windows and Linux running on the same hardware? For most of the world Linux is far leaner meaner and more responsive than any version of Windows.

 

[LinuxDevice]

You have an NVDIA GPU, so I would suggest making sure you use their driver instead of the Mesa driver. You might need to install a package from Mesa to get "glxinfo", and there are lots of Mesa packages which are not the driver, but on an installation that seems slow, what do you see from:
glxinfo | egrep -i '(version|nvidia|vendor)'

On Ubuntu the package "mesa-utils" provides glxinfo.