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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by pengaru on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:35PM (#24889201)
> 1) Wayland is really slow. I don't know if it's the compositing or what but it's unusable on lighter hardware that X ran fine on.

Presumably your compositor is using llvmpipe software rendering if it's so slow.

Unaccelerated Xorg using something like the vesa driver is slow too.

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by swiley on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:38AM (#24896014)
I own machines that have no hardware acceleration (I had to remove the kernel modules and use the efi framebuffer because the drivers would crash.)

Xorg is absolutely usable on such machines with compositing disabled, wayland is not.

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by pengaru on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:14AM (#24896362)
> Xorg is absolutely usable on such machines with compositing disabled, wayland is not.

For this comparison to make any sense at all you need to state which Wayland compositor, Wayland is a protocol.

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