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Re:Gaming on Wayland by dijit on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:01PM (#29568603)
> I would generally suggest to view web video such as YouTube

I’m talking about more than video though. I’m talking about scrolling text. You can see visible lines when you have a large display and scroll a page.

Anyway. It doesn’t matter. You want to run X11 then that’s fine, but I’m quite happy with wayland and I’m happy to leave the weird configuration and cacophony of hacks behind.

Re:Gaming on Wayland by smoldesu on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:28PM (#29572879)
Nobody here is trying to take your experience away from you, if Wayland makes you happy then by all means, keep using it. Without users on the cutting edge, it's hard to debug new software. However, what others have been saying here, is that x11 typically doesn't have screen tearing issues on the majority of hardware/software configurations. Yes, it is possible to remove a composition pipeline and disable all of the safeguards put in place to eliminate screen-tearing. If you're using a barebones system like i3wm or similarly stark systems, you will probably notice tearing; however, the vast majority of hardware/software combos that people actually use these days do not exhibit this issue. On my Nvidia and Intel machines, I do not notice any tearing on fresh installs without configuration. This goes for gaming, video watching, 3D modelling, reading, website scrolling and quite literally everything else I do on my desktop and laptop.