• @CarlosCheddar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10•2 years ago

    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.

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      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.

    • euphoric.catEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      a little weird yes, with the classic games, but I think this page is very useful to show newbies

      • @strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        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
          5•2 years ago

          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
        2•2 years ago

        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.

  • @______@lemm.eeEnglish
    -15•2 years ago

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

    • ADHDefy
      6•2 years ago

      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.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        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.

    • CyborganismEnglish
      1•2 years ago

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