• GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    It really depends on your hardware. I don’t think you’ll have any boosts. The “Gaming Edition” can even be worse than average because of the amount of purely aesthetic whistles preinstalled. I think it’s more about performance in regular tasks on modern machines. Preload will greatly improve app loading times there. For gaming just use a rolling release distro to get newest drivers. I also wouldn’t recommend running GNOME because it seems to decrease gaming performance here and there. Other than that it doesn’t really matter and in case something does you can install/tweak it on other distros as well

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        7 months ago

        You’re welcome but I’m not much of a specialist so half of my answers might probably be wrong lol. Considering the fact that I decided to answer your questions anyway, thanking me might not be considered very fair

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          Hey, you helped me with something even though you didn’t have to, and that is appreciated

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      7 months ago

      I also wouldn’t recommend running GNOME because it seems to decrease gaming performance here and there

      Didn’t Phoronix test this and find no difference? Latency, similarly, is the same across Kwin and Mutter.

      The only thing Gnome really falls behind on in gaming is that VRR is an experimental feature in Gnome and won’t be fully greenlit until next release.

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        Idk who is Phoronix. The benchmarks I saw showed some difference. Though they were taken on GNOME without VRR so yea that can be a reason