Fedora 23: KDE vs. Xfce vs. GNOME vs. LXDE vs. MATE

[axfelix]

They should really just enable it by default, even so. It doesn't break vsync the way that unredirecting fullscreen does in compiz, and being able to *dynamically toggle compositing entirely* is a unique feature in Kwin that they won't get enough credit for this way.

Besides, I really just want to see the benchmark so I don't have to test it myself

[droste]

The reason it's not enabled by default in kwin is that it can cause flickering when you switch between the desktop and your fullscreen app (alt+tab).
This is why I leave it disabled and just switch off compositing if I actually need the best performance (alt+shift+f12) and reenable it when I'm finished playing (alt+shift+f12).

[bug77]

I think it is very fair to run the software as is. That's the defaults any user are going to get, than you test what the users are going to experience...
What you are asking is not fair to the other ones. It's like you would have a performance test and your application runs faster because of aggressive caching(Chrome for example), you are satisfied with the result and then somebody has a memory test and sees that your application consumes a lot more memory and you ask them to disable caching and then compare...
You decided to have that tradeoff, than it is absolutely fair to everybody else to run the defaults on everybody and not tune for each case separately...

You make a fair point. On Windows or OS X, that is. Because I'm having a hard time imagining anyone tech-savvy enough to use KDE, but at the same time oblivious enough to not disable redirecting in full screen.
Sure, it's baffling that checkbox isn't ticked by default and it's easier for Michael to test stuff out of the box, but seriously, when testing with different settings, it really limits the usefulness of the benchmark. Just imagine the same situation when testing various C++ compilers.

[norsetto]

Hmmm, interesting. It seems (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LXQt) that lxqt is available in Fedora? If so, perhaps it would be worth to check it out too.

[Barnabas]

Would you mind retesting with the "unredirect and disable compositing when there's a fullscreen application running" features enabled in Plasma 5? It takes two mouse clicks in a config window.

And on this topic I think it would be nice to see some articles on how to configure the various desktops for the best performance rather than just out of the box settings. I always like to "tune" my setups for the best performance, but being a Linux noob I don't really know where to start.

[sarfarazahmad]

Well in my case, I been swamping xfce and mate, until I found the sweet spot, anyway not bad combination mate with xfwm4, maybe in a future I will try that.

You have got to try xfwm4. Its easy to customize. It might not be as easy on resources as say compton but it does bring a nice cohesive feel to the xfce4 desktop but It does bring a degree of finesse to the mate desktop.

Phoronix: Fedora 23: KDE vs. Xfce vs. GNOME vs. LXDE vs. MATE

As mentioned earlier some benchmarks to share this weekend are comparing the out-of-the-box OpenGL graphics performance on Fedora 23 when running some benchmarks under KDE Plasma, Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, and MATE.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22304

Is Phoronix planning to benchmark KDE without desktop effects?

[staalmannen]

lol . nice comment above. xfce FTW ! marco sucks . the best linux GUI - > numix themes/icons + ubuntu font with infinality + mate 1.10 running on top of xfwm4 with compositing

I run numix circle on plasma 5 and like it a lot. I do not have the feeling that plasma would be any slower than for example xfce.

[raonlinux]

Well in my case, I been swamping xfce and mate, until I found the sweet spot, anyway not bad combination mate with xfwm4, maybe in a future I will try that.

[xpander]

lol . nice comment above. xfce FTW ! marco sucks . the best linux GUI - > numix themes/icons + ubuntu font with infinality + mate 1.10 running on top of xfwm4 with compositing

word ...almost same here: xfwm4 + mate 1.10 + numix dark theme, f-darkest icons, infinality without ubuntu font