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What's wrong with Cinnamon? I use it because we share a computer and it was the closest thing to Windows look-wise for non-linuxy family members. Interested to hear what advantages plasma has though!
I have a multi monitor setup and regularly play helldivers, war thunder, etc on an rtx card on a display with gsync
The games often have stuttering problems and behave generally unexpectedly when in full screen, and mouse capture dosent work, so 50% of the time I had to disable the monitor so it dosent go to the other screen and tab out of the game
Tried on both endeavourOS and mint, so its probably a cinnamon thing
I use it on my backup PC tho and never had a problem with normal applications, its great performance wise
Ah ok that makes sense. I believe plasma does HDR out of the box too, amongst other cool things