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Why KDE Is Great For Gaming On The Linux Desktop
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I have indeed been playing games in KDE for the Steam beta and it's been bliss. I appreciate the fact it's a powerful modern desktop with the ability to completely switch off compositing and I'm unsure why the others are moving away from that.
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Originally posted by D0pamine View Posti dont even know what a power user is...
EDIT: wouldn't xinit /path/to/bin give the best performance?
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Havin a fallback mode makes KDE better?
Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: Why KDE Is Great For Gaming On The Linux Desktop
Martin Gr??lin, the well known KWin developer, has written a new blog post explaining why if you're wanting to play Valve's Source Engine games or the other new native Linux games you should be using KDE Plasma...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIzOTI
If it is due to comopsiting, why not stop using that shit unteil it is fixed?
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Originally posted by gcala View PostHave you read the source? The problem is that current implementation of unity/gnome force you to maintain compositor ON, and this causes overhead when playing games.
Originally posted by gcala View PostWith KWin you can manually/automatically disable composition and gain more fps from a game.
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i dont even know what a power user is...
EDIT: wouldn't xinit /path/to/bin give the best performance?
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Originally posted by D0pamine View Posthow is this news?
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how is this news? how would using kde affect gaming? if the claim is that compositing affects game performance then duh yeh - use lxde or something that doesn't rely on compositing
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostOne sane enough to avoid keeping shitty code paths belonging to the last millenium on life support. How about you?
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