guide to get a system tuned for responsiveness (helps with gaming, VMs, and desktop system feel)
(i can only confirm for ubuntu on this one)
Ubuntu: sudo apt install linux-lowlatency linux-lowlatency-headers
for my personal favourite which is a similar to the version of the Arch linux Zen kernel ((but for Ubuntu/Debian) Deprecated)
remove for the ubuntu part the -get on apt-get update and apt-get install it is no longer needed
lastly sudo reboot