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KDE for Gamers – Enjoy Your Games on Plasma and Linux (kde.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird page

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree. It's bragging about a bunch of things that either aren't part of KDE or aren't really gaming. It's like if MS made a "Gaming on Windows" page to advertise solitaire, minesweeper, pinball, and Steam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If Microsoft had 3% market share on Steam, they probably would

[–] DABDA 0 points 1 year ago

Mac Switch - Gaming [from YouTube]

[–] CarlosCheddar 11 points 1 year ago

I recently learned about Sysrq + f to kill running processes making the computer hang. Before finding about this I had to manually restart the PC via power button. I wonder if KDE should make it easier to enable this feature considering they have something to kill processes already but it’s less powerful than Sysrq.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Kpatience for the win!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Here's KDE on the Steam Deck! On Manjaro. For some reason..."

[+] stephenc 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Are you having a nice rant?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

System76’s home-developed DE is going to come out one of these days and join the races

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

Put some respect on Cinnamon's name

[–] Defaced 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like cinnamon, but any DE that doesn't support Wayland these days is just shooting itself in the foot. Evolve or fade away, stop hanging onto x11.

[–] njordomir 3 points 1 year ago

Plasma is the best for me also. Ever since GNOME 3 went "convergence," I've been looking for a traditional desktop experience. Xfce, cinnamon, and budgie all have good things going for them. I choose to use KDE because I love the customizability of the desktop and the settings menu is easy to use. The theming is also very nice on KDE.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Default gnome has a great keyboard based workflow or the option for a pointer-device based workflow. It doesn't copy the outdated windows workflow and actually succeeds in pushing its own ideas.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kde is so bloat there's no chance gamers with optimization in mind will choose it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using it for a long time. I've personally found that there is essentially no impact on gaming performance--or if there is, it's so slight that it's totally negligible on midrange hardware, especially with feral gamemode. It might be more impactful on low spec PCs, I would assume, but I'm not sure of that. In my case, it's plenty lightweight and offers lots of customizability.

[–] sleepmode 3 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. Used it early on (around Suse 7.3) and it took ages to compile and was bloated and buggy as heck. I switched to WindowMaker and never really looked back. Recently gave it a whirl on steamdeck and was pretty shocked at how polished and nice it is. If you haven’t given it a fair shake recently, you might be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Plasma is more lightweight than GNOME in terms of resource usage, so.... (I use a tiling window manager, btw)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to feel that way as well, but things have changed and improved quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seems that way