Ubuntu 17.04 Gaming Performance: Budgie vs. GNOME vs. KDE Plasma vs. MATE vs. Unity vs. Xfce

[ElderSnake]

Just when there's an article to be fairly positive about overall, with performance being relatively even (especially if you take into account default software compositing as being a likely reason for MATE's lesser showing - I can't wait for that to be ported to Wayland), people still find a reason to bitch and get all trolly. I swear some of the people around here need a shrink for their issues.

[Gapil301]

The plot thickens.

I think this points to something important, though: what Mutter is doing is probably entirely sane, and the reactions of some of the forum-dwellers here might not be.

Well, you are the one who started the disinformation about mutter to save your precious gnome dignity.

[Vash63]

As a regular CSGO player, I really wish Mutter would let me increase the timeout before bringing up the crashed app window without having to compile from source. That should be a tweak tool or dconf setting.

[Niarbeht]

Oh, a bug with mutter, how surprising...

Not actually a mutter bug. The SDL apps aren't responding to pings from Mutter.

The plot thickens.

I think this points to something important, though: what Mutter is doing is probably entirely sane, and the reactions of some of the forum-dwellers here might not be.

[ikey_solus]

Oh, a bug with mutter, how surprising...

Not actually a mutter bug. The SDL apps aren't responding to pings from Mutter.

[Gapil301]

Did you read the article? Michael clearly states it's a known bug with Mutter de-focusing the window because it thinks the game is unresponsive while it's starting.

Oh, a bug with mutter, how surprising...

[Niarbeht]

Oh, gnome being trashed on performance, how surprising...

Did you read the article? Michael clearly states it's a known bug with Mutter de-focusing the window because it thinks the game is unresponsive while it's starting.

Go actually use Gnome 3 and fire up CS:GO. When the annoying "OH NOES I THINK THIS HAS CRASHEDED" popup comes up, click the wait option, and let the game load.

Bam. You get good performance. Certainly better than the 15fps displayed here.

Also, troll harder, nub.

[genstorm]

@Michael: First page, second image: "KDE Frameworks 5" is not a desktop, just libraries. It wouldn't hurt to explicitly state the *full* KDE Plasma version instead.

[Gapil301]

Oh, gnome being trashed on performance, how surprising...

[bug77]

Just installed Kubuntu 17.04: the most beautiful operating system on the market. (it has improved rather than the predecessor)

You'd love KDE Neon
I've been using Kubuntu for ages, but at home I've switched to KDE Neon. It gets the latest KDE (and more importantly Qt) much faster. On the other hand, it only tracks LTS releases, so you need PPAs to stay up to date with other things.

KDE/QT from being last a couple of years ago to kind of obliterating all GTK 3 desktops today in gaming!

Since people said KDE is a piece of garbage, then would like to know the results the day when it will rocks.

I doubt KDE was ever that slow. But I think for ages it couldn't reliably disable compositing as needed and since Micheal tests using defaults it just ended up doing unnecessary stuff.
In the years I've been using KDE it had many problems, but slowness was never one of them. At least not to me.