Why KDE Is Great For Gaming On The Linux Desktop

[Serafean]

But there is a huge difference (in my eyes) between fiddling with things that I want to change myself - because I would like the change - ... and not because I have to do the change in order for something TO WORK.

Fair enough. But this has a downside (I'll take drivers as an example) : You need to keep your system up to date. Namely the kernel. Having an OS isn't install & forget. I always make the comparison to cars which, from time to time have to be taken to the service and get fixed up. Now computers are much more versatile than cars, and hardware support doesn't magically happen. Hence maintaining a system that works out of the box with most things takes work.

(I still haven't found out how to make Ibus Chinese Pinyin input work properly in Kubuntu).

I had to google ibus...had no idea what that was. This brings me to market(developer) share : if there aren't devs that use it, it won't work...

In general I agree that things should "just work", but in the real world that is a nearly impossible task with hardware bugs/quirks, software bugs (an open-office specific hack in kwin comes to mind). Eg : When windows are spaced all wrong, you blame the window manager, but what if it is the app that's buggy? I believe that fullscreen unredirection should be and is enough (from my very limited testing), and any bugs were indeed the application's fault.

Serafean

[Shahrizai]

Really, that's how Linux works, we should have tools, but it's up to the the people to use them.

YES! Agreed! The freedom of choice! But it saddens me that sometimes, I HAVE TO use tools to make something work at all. It's not my choice
But yeah, I agree with you.

This kind of goes hand in hand with what Serafean said, which I also agree with to some extent. Maintenance could be looked upon as something you need to do in order for something to work, (e.g. new drivers to run the game).
But that wasn't really my point though. :P

But anyway, I think we have found some kind of conclusion

[BoTuLoX]

YES! Agreed! The freedom of choice! But it saddens me that sometimes, I HAVE TO use tools to make something work at all. It's not my choice
But yeah, I agree with you.

This kind of goes hand in hand with what Serafean said, which I also agree with to some extent. Maintenance could be looked upon as something you need to do in order for something to work, (e.g. new drivers to run the game).
But that wasn't really my point though. :P

But anyway, I think we have found some kind of conclusion

Just something to add to all that.

Maintenance is something that's cool the OS (Linux) does for you up to the point of "not messing with your tools".

Windows, on the other hand, only gets slower and slower with time, and you either have to start anew or use third party tools like TuneUp or CCC.

[cardboard]

There's a window rule called "Block Compositing." When set, KWin will disable compositing when any window marked is created, and will resume compositing automatically when the window is closed.

Alt+Shift+F12 is fine, but I'd rather mark the application and never have to deal with disabling and enabling compositing.