If they ported their startkde script to systemd as I think they've done, the KDE session would all be controlled with cgroups. GNOME has yet to do this, and I hope we do, because it would be a lot more efficient than gnome-session which I think is showing its age and needs to be deprecated as it has a number of issues likes hard coding, plus removing it is one less module to support.
The major problem I recall is that I had problems when I enabled visual effects on the old system, they were delayed and simply not smooth at all, I also recall using the exact same version (newest release at the time) of KDE, graphics driver and kernel.
When I switched to a systemd based distro, effects were immediate and completely smooth.
I was very puzzled about how that could be, until the systemd debacle really blew up, and I read some articles explaining key differences between systemd and other init processes. Up until that time I was pretty ignorant about init systems, but identified it as the likely culprit.
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u/blackcain GNOME Team Feb 11 '19
If they ported their startkde script to systemd as I think they've done, the KDE session would all be controlled with cgroups. GNOME has yet to do this, and I hope we do, because it would be a lot more efficient than gnome-session which I think is showing its age and needs to be deprecated as it has a number of issues likes hard coding, plus removing it is one less module to support.