KDE for Gamers – Enjoy Your Games on Plasma and Linux

https://kde.org/for/gamers/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5648861

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

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22 Comments

strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Weird page

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I agree. It's bragging about a bunch of things that either aren't part of KDE or aren't really gaming. It's like if MS made a "Gaming on Windows" page to advertise solitaire, minesweeper, pinball, and Steam.

Nefyedardu@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

If Microsoft had 3% market share on Steam, they probably would

DABDA@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Newbies for what though? I'd be surprised a Linux newbie would find themselves on this page, I'm not really sure who this is for

Nefyedardu@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

If I was a newbie shopping around for a DE, I would probably be perusing websites like kde.org to get a feel for the visual style and features and such

DarkThoughts@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

Yeah, this kinda gives the impression of this old stereotypical Linux image as a gaming platform where we all just play Tux Racer and weird Solitaire clones.

CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

I recently learned about Sysrq + f to kill running processes making the computer hang. Before finding about this I had to manually restart the PC via power button. I wonder if KDE should make it easier to enable this feature considering they have something to kill processes already but it’s less powerful than Sysrq.

SigHunter@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y

Kpatience for the win!

gecked@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y

"Here's KDE on the Steam Deck! On Manjaro. For some reason..."

stephenc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (6 replies)
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strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 2y

Are you having a nice rant?

aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y

System76’s home-developed DE is going to come out one of these days and join the races

pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Put some respect on Cinnamon's name

Defaced@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

I like cinnamon, but any DE that doesn't support Wayland these days is just shooting itself in the foot. Evolve or fade away, stop hanging onto x11.

njordomir@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Plasma is the best for me also. Ever since GNOME 3 went "convergence," I've been looking for a traditional desktop experience. Xfce, cinnamon, and budgie all have good things going for them. I choose to use KDE because I love the customizability of the desktop and the settings menu is easy to use. The theming is also very nice on KDE.

Polyester6435@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 2y

Default gnome has a great keyboard based workflow or the option for a pointer-device based workflow. It doesn't copy the outdated windows workflow and actually succeeds in pushing its own ideas.

______@lemm.ee · -19 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Kde is so bloat there's no chance gamers with optimization in mind will choose it.

ADHDefy@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I've been using it for a long time. I've personally found that there is essentially no impact on gaming performance--or if there is, it's so slight that it's totally negligible on midrange hardware, especially with feral gamemode. It might be more impactful on low spec PCs, I would assume, but I'm not sure of that. In my case, it's plenty lightweight and offers lots of customizability.

sleepmode@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Can confirm. Used it early on (around Suse 7.3) and it took ages to compile and was bloated and buggy as heck. I switched to WindowMaker and never really looked back. Recently gave it a whirl on steamdeck and was pretty shocked at how polished and nice it is. If you haven’t given it a fair shake recently, you might be surprised.

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y

Plasma is more lightweight than GNOME in terms of resource usage, so.... (I use a tiling window manager, btw)

cyborganism@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I used to feel that way as well, but things have changed and improved quite a bit.

______@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Seems that way