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I have XPS 9380, and it's far from ideal: - when using external display, video tearing would be visible either on internal or external display - Xorg doesn't

I have XPS 9380, and it's far from ideal: - when using external display, video tearing would be visible either on internal or external display - Xorg doesn't really support different scaling for different displays, and Wayland has other issues - battery life is shorter than on Windows - graphics performance is worse, at least in Firefox/Chrome (smooth animations on Windows would be choppy on Linux) - touchpad is not great on Windows, but it's even worse on Linux (even after fiddling with settings, and trying many solutions, using it on Windows feels better)

freebuju 6y ago
Video tearing could be because of xorg. Try Wayland with HW decode, you have to manually enable it. Both chrome & Firefox support this now. My experience is different from yours. With Wayland I had smoother graphics than xorg.
shaan7 6y ago
Interesting. Apart from the per-display scaling (which is basically a Xorg limitation as you said) I had the opposite experience on my XPS 13. At the end I did not want a 4K display but Dell did not offer me the option. So I just used 1080p scaled most of the time. Battery life was stupid on Windows (~3-4 hours max, while Linux did 7-8 with moderate load). Somehow on Windows the fan would always be running even without any significant activity in Resource Monitor. I remember playing 4K videos on Linux (Firefox though, and I only tested YouTube) without any trouble (with monitor disconnected though, due to what you described earlier). Touchpad would work sweet on Linux but needed some tweaking on Windows (otherwise it'd 2-finger scroll too fast sometimes).