cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5648861
Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!
HDR and VRR (g-sync) compatible?
Is KDE much lighter than Gnome? I feel like Gnome is much more mobile friendly for use with the touchscreen
Yes. KDE is in fact much lighter and faster than GNOME. Apart from lower RAM usage, it taxes your CPU and GPU less.
Isn’t that just because KDE fragments its processes, so instead of one large process like gnome you have many smaller ones?
I’m pretty new to gaming on Linux, does this work better than downloading steam and running proton?
Compare it to switching out the surface of the table you play boardgames on - different surfaces might feel differently, look differently, but ultimately all serve the same purpose and a game board will work the same on all of them. So really, it’s mostly about finding a desktop that you like.
(We can go into details about differences, but for starters, this analogy serves well enough)
KDE is bot a way to play games, it’s more of an entire desktop. If you miss having navigation bar at the bottom or a desktop full of shortcuts, try KDE.
I have kde plasma for my desktop but I (incorrectly) assumed that the article was talking about running games on kde
