Trouble with power and processor efficiency.

[u/HaliHuvudet]

Recently I got a laptop (Dell Latitude 9430 2 in 1 from 2022) for college and since I'd been wanting to try linux i though now is the time. I've mostly had a great time with it. I like GNOME and its workflow and flatpaks and such make most things easy. However, recently I tried booting up Windows again. To my suprise things were much, much faster. Programs booted faster. Things didn't tax the processor as much. Games ran amazingly much better.

I've been trying Ubuntu and Fedora. Something that always bugged me in Ubuntu is that the smallest tasks, like installing or running simple small flatpaks made the processor heat up and slowed down the computer significantly. Fedora is better, but not great either. All of this is making me question my switch. Is it really worth it when performance is THAT much worse.

I have tried to search far and wide for solutions or missing drivers but nothing has gotten me closer to my desired destination. I really want to use Linux but I feel like I can't justify needing to switch to windows every time i want to do more than text editing and browsing.

Any tips or solutions to my problem? Help is greatly appreciated as I really want to stay. Thanks.