> It’s hard to implement vsync properly when there’s a socket connecting application to display server. That would affect all X11 based applications, yet some

> It’s hard to implement vsync properly when there’s a socket connecting application to display server. That would affect all X11 based applications, yet somehow screen tearing consistently seems to disappear as soon as I bypass the compositor. > Otherwise it gonna introduce presentation latency (especially bad for online games) I once went around looking how much latency various Linux desktop environments introduce. The most widely used ones (KDE and Gnome) on their default settings are outright catastrophic. KDE lets you disable desktop effects and the compositor, Gnome only bypasses it for full screen applications. As always eye candy > functionality.