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Gaming vs Regular Distros
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Gaming distros sometimes can have slightly worse performance than normal ones due to bloat and aesthetics features (especially blur). They might have optimizations for some hardware but the difference is like 2-5% at most. Other than that they're just more convenient and faster to set up for gaming. If you want good performance, use a rolling release to get latest drivers and try both X11 and Wayland to see what works better in the games you play. A lightweight DE/WM can give you a couple extra FPS in some cases too
Lightweight ≠ Optimized
Yes but sometimes it helps. Look at the real tests
What tests?
Lightweight has many many things that might decrease performance, for example
But for sure having less bloat helps, but that is constant, while optimization helps relatively to the load.
Light sway might have a smaller constant footprint, kwin a bigger one. But kwin might scale better.
The software you run is often waaay bigger than the Desktop etc.
bad multithreading: that means more cores are free for apps
Bad available RAM utilization: in my testing distros that used "free RAM is wasted RAM" philosophy were always slower than normal ones
less stuff = more performance and vsync is bad
BRUH what? What does Valve have to do with DEs? You definitely lost me there
I get that you're a Plasma lover but don't say bad things about others DEs because of it. Also I am saying once again: go take a look at real life tests online if you don't believe me. Word against a word doesn't lead to anything except for a fight. And please stop trusting theories without trustworthy experimental proofs. That leads to trusting Big Tech or other scammy people/companies.
If you could show me some links that would be helpful.
https://piped.video/watch?v=aHt8qIOMiTc
I like this one. It's quite new (so you don't say that the situation has changed) and I think it explains quite well. I can't give you many links because I don't have much free online time anymore. I guess you can try to find more comparisons and real researches by yourself and I do apologize for the inconvenience
Interesting channel, he also reacted to TheLinuxExp.
Valve uses KDE, for Gaming. The so called "gaming" highly relies on Windows software translation stuff so I assumed it also has to do with optimized compositors.
Lets see.