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The Steam Deck is what got me to finally try modern KDE and eventually switch to it. I recently moved my gaming PC to Fedora 39, and considered trying Gnome again for variety's sake until I remembered that it currently does not natively support VRR, so this is good news.

I think I prefer Plasma at this point, and I'm excited with Plasma 6 around the corner, but my desktop PC is basically a gaming appliance, so I think the relative simplicity of Gnome might be nice to run on there eventually as these features catch up. I like to have variety in what I'm running anyways. I appreciate that it gives me a wider perspective on my preferences.

The lack of VRR in GNOME is what had me change to KDE. I prefer GNOME in many ways, but I was tired of having to use the vrr patches to keep the functionality.

This is what Windows should be focusing on rather than trying to shove AI crap everywhere.

I wish GNOME had DRM on Wayland, kinda annoying to always have to switch to Xorg for VR

Great. I heard there was a cursor flickering issue under some niche scenarios, due to the cursor and the content's framerates becoming out of sync with one another after exiting some full screen apps, that was previously preventing the merge of this feature.

I'm assuming it's been solved?

The "Preserve battery healthy by keeping charge between 20% and 80%" is a nice option too

Wonder if COSMIC will launch with VRR

I'm currently daily driving Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I didn't think GNOME would be all my thing, but it's really intuitive and has just enough options to satisfy all my desires (okay, I needed the gesture improvements extension for some of them).

It's great to see GNOME focusing on what really matters. I think because they keep it simple to the user, they have more time to focus on important but harder to implement features rather than focusing on heavy customization (I love KDE too, don't worry) But now I want to switch to Fedora or something bleeding edge, because of GNOME.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

There's been some new work pending for further enhancing the GNOME desktop when it comes around Variable Rate Refresh (VRR).

Separately, there's new merge requests pending for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls from the GNOME UI.

GNOME has also seen some fixes around removing certain assumptions around fixed refresh rates and cursor movement becoming synchronized with the main content updates after performing a VT switch.

Some other interesting but separate work being carried out is by GNOME developer Jelle van der Waa for offering up battery charge controls.

This is to make use of the exposed Linux kernel charge control start/end thresholds for helping to preserve battery health for laptops frequently plugged in 24/7.

There are merge requests pending for UPower as well as the GNOME Control Center for allowing users to easily toggle this option to preserve the battery health for frequently plugged in systems by keeping the charge level in the 50~80% range.

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Why is that a ~~Gnome~~ WM thing and not a X/Wayland thing?