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Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support by kelnos on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:13PM (#32007511)
What flicker? Maybe I'm just ignorant of it, but I haven't seen flicker on X11 in years and years and years and years. I've been on Intel graphics for the past 7+ years, so maybe that has something to do with it? And if it does, then that means it's not X11's fault that there's flicker, it's the people who write bad video drivers.
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Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support by dontlaugh on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:34PM (#32007734)
Flickering, tearing and frame drops happen with any hardware combination, just like they did on Windows before Vista.

Not everyone can necessarily notice it. Some of us are unlucky enough to get headaches from it.

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Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support by Barrin92 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:34PM (#32007736)
also anecdotal but I had screen tearing issues on virtually every machine until I used Wayland. I don't know whose to blame because I don't understand the specifics of the stacks well enough, but Wayland just straight up solved it. And you can really find pages of complaints about flickering or tearing issue on every linux forum.
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