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One more nice thing about X that people sometimes miss is that you can turn off compositing (this is the default really.) Lots of people say Wayland feels "slug
by swiley 6y ago
One more nice thing about X that people sometimes miss is that you can turn off compositing (this is the default really.) Lots of people say Wayland feels "sluggish" and this is likely a major contributor to that. Especially if you don't have hardware acceleration (and there are a huge number of reasons why that might not be working.)
Wayland solves a lot of problems by deciding to just not handle things but we have to recognize that taking that position sacrifices things.
- zbuf 6y agoYes, I am also not using compositing, which I always assumed means apps render direct to the framebuffer. Does this mean that moving to Wayland (or its implemenation) is going to add 1 or more frames of delay to my output? This could be a part of why I have always found other modern systems to be less snappy than my own X desktop.