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by meltyness 34 days ago
I would speculate myself instead the more likely thing is related to:

- dns cache configuration

- wlan power saving which is kind of aggressive since Linux has had some power management issues

It's really why I go for a minimal distro, debian with xfce. There's not many components, they're not "tuned", and I can just kinda research any issues myself and find what works. Usually there's some pretty big gaps (missing a whole component, wildly malfunctioning, high resource utilization) and then it's easy to figure out. There's not much code, or really hard scripts to understand. Just maybe enable debug on the service. Learn where the developers put diagnostics (about:support is a godsend). You get to architect your hardware's success and get a rock-solid system. But yeah, if it's weird it might be weird for a while, haha.

For my setup I think the last few lessons were like:

- use gamescope for X11 Wine/Proton (huge.)

- Firefox profile reset to fix hardware decoding (followed some good guides and some bad guides)

- to make changes use the same git tag as your distro so the deps are easily in-reach.

My favorite new discovery for debian in particular is their extensive functional docs. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/

absolutely adore this.