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Wayland pros and cons? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

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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[-] nachtigall@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Honestly, depends on you GPU and the game. Nvidia has been quite reluctant with their Wayland support for a while, while AMD is often pretty even. Here are some benchmarks from early 2023. However, recently there were some improvements for XWayland which may improve performance significantly (there was a post on Lemmy just today or yesterday).

If you use a distro/DE that install both by default (like Ubuntu) I'd recommend to just test it and then decide for your case.

[-] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

distro: just look at my instance xD

Its a full AMD build, so I shouldnt have any issues with the green goblin

[-] TwinTurbo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve had great experience with AMD GPUs on Wayland. Unless you run into specific issues, I don’t see a downside of running Wayland. With NVIDIA, chances are you will run into issues very quickly, unfortunately…

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