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Re:Roadmap to Vulkan for KDE window manager KWin by butz on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:55AM (#36434137)
How important is to have a decent GPU for smooth desktop experience currently and in near future? I was considering switching to less power hungry GPU, but I fear it might make DE slower.
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Re:Roadmap to Vulkan for KDE window manager KWin by BearOso on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:06PM (#36434318)
GPUs have gotten to the state that anything not bottom of the barrel can do a composited desktop just fine. It's mostly ARM chips with anemic GPUs that can't do it. I'm looking at you, Raspberry Pi.
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Re:Roadmap to Vulkan for KDE window manager KWin by pixel3234 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:16PM (#36434468)
Important are drivers. Integrated intel or AMD GPUs are fine. Also KWin has CPU software rendering, that works mostly fine.
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