GNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 2 April 2025 at 10:44 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 88 Comments.
It didn't take long to find the Xfce and LXQt desktops performing similarly too KDE on X11 -- behind the KDE and GNOME desktops atop their native Wayland sessions.
There was a slight performance benefit to GNOME and KDE on Wayland, now with additional weight in those numbers with having these two additional desktops atop the X.Org Server.
Counter-Strike 2 on Linux was also the fastest on the Wayland-based desktop sessions.