Dell XPS 17 9700 feels slow / laggy [because of bad graphics acceleration?]

The MUX is controlled here:

It shouldn’t affect anything if you are using the built-in display only. However, I was concerned that it may screw up the installers detection.

I did install using the Fastboot Thorough setting as well.

AFAIK, I had working UI acceleration with KDE (and Gnome) out of the box without any tweaking in software.