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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In short, LXDE was the measured as the fastest desktop environment for gaming, while XFCE with compositor disabled came in second fastest out of the ones tested. If you need the maximum performance XFCE may be a good compromise between looks vs performance. You can use the “Disable desktop effects” option in Lutris which may reduce the overhead of the desktop environment further.

any idea how this would compare to starting steam directly from a display manager using gamescope as the compositor?

[–] SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

I’m imagine gamescope is the best-case, since there’s no other apps or visual effects.