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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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[–] AtypicalType@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

A few gaming related downsides for me:

There's no way to disable the compositor, so if you play any windowed games, you'll have some extra input lag. It shouldn't matter if you play fullscreen games though.

Missing Xorg tools like xinput or xrandr. Maybe I'm too finicky, but sometimes I can't find the exact mouse speed I want through the settings GUI (for example, in KDE Plasma there are 11 steps from slowest to fastest), and through xinput commands I can just type any speed I want, which is very useful if one step feels too slow but the next one feels too fast.

I also want to increase the screen's gamma level sometimes and I haven't found any way to do that at all on Wayland.

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

All very good points, thanks! I'll need to look into the windowed games thing as I have 2 monitors, often one is the game and the other is any info for the game (e.g. 3PTools for Elite Dangerous) so the input lag will need some testing. I mean worst case scenario I simply go back to X while I can right?

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