After searching what feels like the whole internet and spending multiple hours trying to fix my issues, my last hope is to get some tips pointing me in the right direction here.
First, let me start by giving you an overview of the setup that I am using and why:
I am running Workstation Pro 16.2.3 on a Dell XPS 17 (2021) with Windows 11.
As a guest OS I mainly use Ubuntu 22.04, but I verified that the issues exist across various Linux OSs (Manjaro, Fedora) running Gnome.
Since I work as a developer for multiple clients with different toolchains, I am am running a VM for each customer to have a dedicated development environment for them without interfering with the tools required for other customers.
This setup worked quite well when I started out doing things this way in March with Ubuntu 21.10 and Ubuntu 20.04.
Since updating to Ubuntu 22.04, I am now facing a dilemma which makes my setup effectively unusable.
After updating to Ubuntu 22.04, I started seeing rendering issues when working in IntelliJ and Chrome. IntelliJ would render white boxes for some icons or other highlighting elements and popups. Chrome would have various rendering issues where also icons would not render properly, disappear on hover, or even rendering "empty" boxes where other UI elements were supposed to be.
I did not confirm/see any other major problems since for the current clients I am doing mainly web- and backend-development so I spend most of my time in the IDE or the browser.
After searching the internet, I came across a post suggesting that hardware/3d acceleration might cause these rendering issues in the browser. To my surprise, when I turned off hardware acceleration in Chrome, the issues went away. So the next thing I tried was turn of "3d acceleration" for the whole VM in the Workstation settings. With that the rendering issues indeed went away...
Unfortunately, I just exchanged one problem with another, because without 3d acceleration enabled, I am having a massive input lag when typing and especially when navigating with the arrow keys on the keyboard (which I use quite a lot when coding).
This makes it almost unbearable to do any coding work inside the VM. I've tried to find a solution for the input lag but the fixes suggested in the posts I found did not work for me. Turning 3d acceleration back on, fixes the input lag, but the rendering issues would appear again.
Now I am stuck in a dilemma, because I either I can't do my work because of rendering issues breaking important UI elements in my tools, or I am facing a massive input lag when typing/navigating in text files and terminals.
A colleague of mine who also has the same laptop is seeing similar issues when it comes to the input lag on Manjaro with KDE but not the rendering issues though.
Did anyone else experience any similar issues? Did you manage to fix them? If you need more information, I am happy to provide it.
Every help here is very much appreciated!
