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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I wish GNOME was better than KDE for gaming. GNOME is so freaking sexy, I miss it so much.

Edit: apparently I need to clarify, KWIN (KDE's compositor, has way better support for Wayland than Mutter (GNOME's compositor).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not too sure what your desktop environment has to do with gaming.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On Wayland? It matters a lot, since the compositor has to support each individual protocol feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I didn’t mention Wayland cause he mentioned using Plasma, which still defaults to X11 as of v5, and both DEs in question support X1, so the Gnome/KDE dichotomy didn’t make much sense to me in that context.