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Wayland pros and cons? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 2 years ago by promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?

Comparisons to X?

General impressions?

Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?

My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.

Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we're on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.

Thanks in advance :)

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[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (9 children)

One pro of Wayland is better multi-monitor. X11 can't really handle mixed refresh rates, nor multi-monitor VRR, and per-monitor DPI scaling isn't easily done. Of course, Nvidia doesn't support Wayland VRR yet, nor does GNOME, but Plasma or wlroots on AMD should work. Wlroots btw is the Wayland compositor library e.g. Sway and Hyprland is based on.

Forced vsync has been a problem for gaming on Wayland, though that's in the process of changing due to the tearing protocol, at least on Plasma and wlroots, doesn't seem like GNOME has picked it up yet.

[–] lack@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This (multi-monitor support) is exactly why I switched to sway from i3wm, and haven't looked back.

Not a gamer, so I can't speak to that aspect, but for everything I do there's not much difference.

[–] mranderson17 1 points 2 years ago

except unfortunately sway doesn't actually support VRR the way it's suppose to be used. Currently VRR is active until you make a window full screen, once a window is full screen VRR doesn't work anymore. So pretty much exactly backwards from how it's suppose to work.

Hyprland does VRR right but it has several other issues that make sway the better choice for now, just with VRR disabled.

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