also anecdotal but I had screen tearing issues on virtually every machine until I used Wayland. I don't know whose to blame because I don't understand the speci

also anecdotal but I had screen tearing issues on virtually every machine until I used Wayland. I don't know whose to blame because I don't understand the specifics of the stacks well enough, but Wayland just straight up solved it. And you can really find pages of complaints about flickering or tearing issue on every linux forum.