It appears that I sacrificed performance for quality. Now, with Mesa, when I manipulate 3D graphics there is significant latency. I don't know if a new graphics card would help. I'm using the onboard GPU of my intel i9. I have to go fairly high-end to exceed what intel is giving me.

My Windows machine has the best graphics hardware Lenovo puts in a laptop. Due to licensing restrictions, I can't test Mathematica under Windows on the machine running Linux, even though it is set up to dual boot into Windows.

Indeed. I switched from Automatic to OpenGL which didn't fix the problem. I then switched to Mesa, which seems to have fixed things.