On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:54:50AM +1200, Dawn Dorsett wrote: > I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to Bullseye > and I wish I hadn't. It has some bug fixes in it (which were more like minor > inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW. Its getting to be as bad as > Windows and takes forever to start up. Libreoffice is particularly slow, and > some days I see a delay between hitting the keyboard and the results > appearing on the screen. None of this was a problem with earlier releases.
This sounds very much like missing support for your video hardware (either firmware or drivers or both). If you'd like to fix the problem, instead of simply declaring Debian to be "slow", you could start investigating. Identify your video chipset (using lspci -nn). See whether any video firmware is desired but missing (dmesg | grep -i firmware). Try googling your video device with keywords like "debian" or "linux" and see what steps other users have tried to overcome the same problem with the same device -- it's highly likely that you are not the first person to have the problem, after all.
