> KDE is the most sluggish horrible mess for me every time I try it, it feels like a game constantly fluctuating between 15 and 25 fps when interacting with it.
This may be an issue with your specific hardware. I never encountered slow-downs with KDE, even when fancy compositor-effects were new and I went overboard[1] with them, everything was smooth as butter.
1. Who wouldn't want their wobbly, semi-transparent windows to disappear in a burst of flames when closed?
That is the weird part, it happens on all my various machines.
I have an RDNA2 laptop, KDE is sluggish.
I have a 3900x+2080Super desktop, KDE is sluggish. (Though that's nvidia so..)
Even my 5950x+7900xtx desktop, KDE is sluggish.
I really do not understand it, it's almost as if KDE just runs out of sync with my heads internal fps.
My KDE has fantastic frame-rates on an old Polaris AMD card. I never recall KDE being particularly sluggish, even when I could only use Intel's Integrated graphics.
This may be an issue with your specific hardware. I never encountered slow-downs with KDE, even when fancy compositor-effects were new and I went overboard[1] with them, everything was smooth as butter.
1. Who wouldn't want their wobbly, semi-transparent windows to disappear in a burst of flames when closed?