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GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming
While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops. Originally my plan was to run an X11 vs.
While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops. KDE Plasma 6.3 worked fine on the same hardware under both X11 and Wayland but with the GNOME X11 session it was a constant screen blanking/flashing experience: The same AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D + AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX system was used for all of this testing with just switching out the desktop session in use between running a variety of Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks for looking at the KDE Plasma 6.3 vs. GNOME 48 performance and then under KDE for the X11 vs. Wayland difference as of this Ubuntu 25.04 beta state.
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