I don’t think it should have a significant effect on performance. On the other hand gamescope is broken on my system right now. There are probably plus and minuses of both.

Great. now how long till we can game without nesting the game inside gamescope?

I am using a 4080 on Plasma 6 wayland. It works pretty well. DLSS works. I haven’t tried frame generation, but I think support was added recently. Occasionally I have a wake problem, but I believe that is bios related. I am encountering a gamescope blackscreen freezing issue.

Only stuttering I am experiencing is a Steam overlay bug and Bluetooth interference sometimes.

Compositor choice and how recent of release will effect your experience as they are all independent implementations and still improving.

I wouldn’t expect that a 20 series card to be a specifically buggier experience over the 40 and 30 series though.

Did you happen to enable Bluetooth LE-Audio mode for the Headphones in an app? If so you need to turn it off.

You probably just had a program(s) use a lot of ram and that pushed some processes to swap. When the system needs it, it will be moved back. I’d +1 on setting up zram. Can be setup easily on most distros.