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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 4 of 4. 88 Comments.

LXQt had issues with Strange Brigade similar to KDE Plasma but the Xfce X11 desktop worked out fine for this Steam Play game.

For those that were hypothesizing last week that the lighter-weight Xfce and LXQt desktops atop an X11 session would yield better performance than GNOME or KDE on Wayland, that wasn't the case with this round of testing. For these Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks while using the Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics, the packaged KDE/GNOME Wayland sessions were delivering the best gaming performance out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 25.04 beta. Often times it was a tight race between these desktop sessions but there were no instances observed where using an X11-based session provided a measurably better experience.

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