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I've been on TW for 3-4 years now (something like my 4th distro? Been on Linux for 15-ish years), and it's great. I used KDE for the first 2-3 years until I replaced my NVIDIA card with an AMD card, and now I'm on GNOME because it has much better Wayland support.
I have no complaints about TW whatsoever. My main complaint is that openSUSE seems adamant about eliminating Leap, so I'll have to figure out MicroOS sometime in the next year or so to migrate my servers. But that has nothing to do with TW or gaming, so it should be irrelevant for OP.
How is Wayland better on GNOME? You mean stable, more features? I just moved to KDE to get VRR & HDR.
More stable. As in, it works pretty much as I expect vs the X11 version, whereas KDE on Wayland crashes for me (or is just glitchy).
If it works, great, but it was pretty much unusable for me so I switched to GNOME for VRR and whatnot.
GNOME now supports VRR? Damn, you're tempting me to go back. I love GNOME's UX/UI and it's gazillion of libadwaita apps.
It has for ages, even on X11 IIRC. I happen to have two monitors, one with VRR and the other without, and I needed Wayland to get that to work properly.
This is on AMD, YMMV with NVIDIA.
Is vsync still being forced?
Idk, I don't play competitive games, and I don't particularly value high FPS gaming (my monitor only goes to 95hz, which is plenty for the games I play).
I have seen that KDE supposedly allows turning it off now, so it's possible GNOME also does since GNOME seems to generally have better Wayland support. But I'm really not sure, I just generally leave vsync on in games.