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The advantages of a more unixy display system are all indirect. Right now, working on that side is pretty arcane. Wayland will make it much simpler, so that coo

The advantages of a more unixy display system are all indirect. Right now, working on that side is pretty arcane. Wayland will make it much simpler, so that cool ideas and new innovations will get turned into reality faster. The only direct advantage Wayland will bring is a flicker-free and tear-free desktop.

jlgreco 15y ago
I'm under the impression that flicker-free/tear-free are features that KVM brings to Wayland and that X already has if you use KVM drivers. Is that not the case?
- hollerith 15y ago
  Do you really mean Kernel Virtual Machine or did you mean Kernel Mode Setting?
  - jlgreco 15y ago
    Ah sorry, KMS. Been working with KVM too much recently ;)
rwmj 15y ago
"tear free" and "flicker free" constantly come up in discussion of Wayland. My X desktop does not tear or flicker. I've in fact not seen an X desktop doing either of these things.
- ori_b 15y ago
  Right. And if your X desktop did do it, then so would Wayland. Both use more or less the same acceleration infrastructure.