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As far as I know, there is no technical reason why Wayland would have better hardware acceleration. Modern X11 compositors work on very similar principles. — t
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
As far as I know, there is no technical reason why Wayland would have better hardware acceleration.
Modern X11 compositors work on very similar principles. — the only difference is the Wayland protocol requires that there be such a compositor, and on X11 one is free to even use outdated server drawing calls that have not been used for decades.
- kaba0 6y agoBut there is no reason for X11 to be in the picture, it does absolutely nothing other than adding another communication step between the client and the compositor.