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My experience is the exact same, I so want to be able to have a snappy low latency desktop experience in Linux and it is just not happening. Today I run a "lightweight" Ubuntu Mate workstation with an i7 + dedicated GPU and it's still worse latency wise than my Windows XP PC was more than 15 years ago. Not good. Really not good.

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This is not the experience I'm getting. I'm running XUbuntu Bionic with i3, and the experience is butter smooth; makes Windows feel laggy and MacOS slow as molasses

on the other hand, there are no nice animations, transitions and 3D effects like shadowing; just pixels on the screen; however everything updates instantly.

It even appears to have gotten worse with time.

My only Linux system is a netbook with an AMD APU DX11 class, it used to work quite well, however after the AMD driver split performance was never as good and having back video hardware decoding required me to force enable it.

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