I haven’t had problems with tearing in x11 for 20 years, with or without compositors, on nvidia, amd or intel. Each driver spells the TearFree / vsync option d

I haven’t had problems with tearing in x11 for 20 years, with or without compositors, on nvidia, amd or intel. Each driver spells the TearFree / vsync option differently in the config. They probably should have just enabled it by default, since there is no downside.