Linux user with w11 newbie question

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Dear all,

I hope this is the correct forum to be asking this type of probably dumb question in;
I had to get a w11 at home for my new employer and am now facing a strange issue that I don't recall having unless back in 1997 when hardware vendors in general and Linux were not always best buddies.
My perfectly functional HP keyboard and mouse seem to at random intervals fail to register either a keyboard input or a mouse click. Same keyboard and mouse on the same laptop booting in it's w10 partition, no such issue. Booting in my Debian home, no such issue only w11... I've updated my device drivers for keyboard, mouse, USB serial Bus controllers, using vendor (HP) drivers or MS generic... to no avail.

Anybody have an idea?
many thanks in advance,

Kind regards,
Kada

Have you tried another keyboard?

I've had problems with some keyboards acting like that. Sometimes it because it thinks that the control key or the windows key is pressed. Other times, it is the keyboard itself that is defective.

Does the rest of the PC seem to be doing stuff while the keyboard/mouse aren't responding? I'm just wondering if it's periodically freezing which is making it appear like the keyboard/mouse are unresponsive. Look at Task Manager and see if anything is maxing out your CPU/RAM.

The only other thing I can think is maybe the power options are set to save power. I think Windows puts idle USB devices to sleep and there can be a little delay as it wakes them back up. If that's the case turning off any power saving options might help.

The solution came overnight...
Thank you for your time and suggestions, for those interested, the magic solution was as suggested a new keyboard and mouse. For some reason the HP keyboards and mice seem to have missed the "all aboard"-call for w11 and after brining home a new keyboard and mouse yesterday, simply plugin them in solved all issues.
Again, as stated the keyboard and mouse themselves were not malfunctioning, it was truly the fact that they were manufactured by HP with a usb hub functionality that seemed to cause the "lag" issues I experienced.
the new keyboard is from logitech and has the same functionality without the issues in w11.

kind regards,
Kada

Sweet.