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> Every time I go back to X, I'm reminded of why I use Wayland full time. Why's that? Genuinely curious as I always have the exact opposite experience. I've f

by chmln 8y ago

> Every time I go back to X, I'm reminded of why I use Wayland full time. Why's that? Genuinely curious as I always have the exact opposite experience. I've found both gnome wayland and sway matching neither x11's features nor performance

AsyncAwait 8y ago
At least on my AMD box, Wayland is considerably smoother than X.
jniedrauer 8y ago
The main reason for me is HiDPI support. Scaling works extremely well in wayland, and I can set scaling per-display. HiDPI support on X is an afterthought at best.
- ndnxhs 8y ago
  Does fractional scailing work yet. I have 1080p on a small laptop and the text is too small to read but 2x is huge. Currently I just have large text enabled in accessibility mode.
  - jniedrauer 8y ago
    It does, yes. Quite well. I have one of my displays at 1.5x scale.
rhodysurf 8y ago
Its so much smoother for me as long as I dont use an NVIDIA laptop