Today I had some time to commit to trying to triage this out a little better. I did find some other people with similar problems on different distros. The problem exists in the 5.15 vanilla kernel package The problem exists even after I remove packages to do with the 470 nvidia driver. I updated the BIOS on my laptop. Created a new user and made sure it wasn't something related to KDE settings for my current user. The problem sometimes takes a minute after boot to show up. Symptoms I've noticed: QEMU is crazy slow trying to boot my Win11 VM, with the spinning dots barely moving at all. Using messenger.com for facebook messenger in a browser [any of them], or Ferdi, switching between two different chats a few times, the delay on each switch is 2-4 seconds. A fraction of a second on 5.14.11. Logging in to KDE might be up to 20s. Granted my login is a little extended for use of systemd-home with luks, but not 20s. Launching of Ferdi is about 7-8s. Normally 2. Even switching between different e-mails in Thunderbird is delayed by a second or two - normally instant. But, since this is in vanilla, I guess I'm going to have to say that it's upstream, and something that seems like it might even be hardware specific to my system.