This is pretty interesting. I read through some of the details to see if this could also help with running local LLMs/rendering as I've had Plasma freeze while trying to draw some animation or blur when the VRAM is filled to the brim, but it doesn't seem like that's the case since it is made to prioritize and protect the memory of the foreground application (as the focused window). So it should work great for games but might actually make things worse if your VRAM load is in a daemon or background process
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Wake me up, when it works out of the box and is enabled by default.
if you are on bleeding edge distros it's already time to wake up.
Which distro has it already? I know one can try it out in CachyOS, but is it enabled and working by default? I don't think its already in Archlinux or Fedora.
afaik it's enabled on cachy, and if that's already the case, arch is coming very soon.
So its not time to wake up yet. :-)
well, the distro you choose determines how bleeding edge it is.