KDE for Gamers – Enjoy Your Games on Plasma and Linux (kde.org)
from JRepin@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 2023 09:03
https://lemmy.ml/post/5648862

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5648861

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

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Stety@lemmy.world on 29 Sep 2023 05:30 next collapse

I’m pretty new to gaming on Linux, does this work better than downloading steam and running proton?

HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Sep 2023 05:48 next collapse

KDE is bot a way to play games, it’s more of an entire desktop. If you miss having navigation bar at the bottom or a desktop full of shortcuts, try KDE.

Stety@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 2023 08:24 collapse

I have kde plasma for my desktop but I (incorrectly) assumed that the article was talking about running games on kde

luciferofastora@lemmy.zip on 29 Sep 2023 11:05 collapse

Compare it to switching out the surface of the table you play boardgames on - different surfaces might feel differently, look differently, but ultimately all serve the same purpose and a game board will work the same on all of them. So really, it’s mostly about finding a desktop that you like.

(We can go into details about differences, but for starters, this analogy serves well enough)

nix@merv.news on 29 Sep 2023 08:14 next collapse

Is KDE much lighter than Gnome? I feel like Gnome is much more mobile friendly for use with the touchscreen

Koffiato@lemmy.ml on 29 Sep 2023 11:21 next collapse

Yes. KDE is in fact much lighter and faster than GNOME. Apart from lower RAM usage, it taxes your CPU and GPU less.

Neon@lemmy.world on 30 Sep 2023 13:59 collapse

Isn’t that just because KDE fragments its processes, so instead of one large process like gnome you have many smaller ones?

bright_side_@beehaw.org on 29 Sep 2023 12:44 collapse

Be a bit careful on what you read on the Internet regarding performance of either of the two. For some reason there is a lot of tribalism around people’s favorite DEs which leads to a lot of misinformation.

Gaming Performance is almost the same, just pick what works best for you: www.phoronix.com/review/kde-gnome-wayland21/4

Across all the games tested both native and titles via Steam Play (Proton + DXVK), the GNOME Wayland session most often was showing the best performance and across the wide range of tests carried out came to about 4% better performance than the GNOME X.Org session. The KDE Plasma Wayland session tended to perform slightly in front of its X.Org session as well for these Linux gaming tests but there were a few games still running into problems with the KDE Wayland session.

n00b001@lemmy.world on 29 Sep 2023 08:28 collapse

HDR and VRR (g-sync) compatible?