Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux

Re:Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to g... by vancan1ty on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:49AM (#36711181)

My laptop is a Dell Precision M4800 -- not the newest but is perfectly fast enough for what I need to do. I run KDE under X usually. Tried wayland for the first time recently and there was huge input lag with moving the mouse. I found it unusable. Other people have similar problems [1] [2]. For me at least wayland is a no go until the performance matches X.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1335gj5/mouse_feels_la... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/wj7jji/mouse_lag_o...

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Re:Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to g... by kaba0 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:20PM (#36715402)

That is KDE’s Wayland implementation. If you find safari slow, http is not at fault. Other browsers might be fast - or in this case: gnome, wlroots based ones like sway often improve performance.

For what it’s worth, KDE is quite behind in terms of wayland. It has gotten a lot better, but it is not a good fit for evaluating wayland itself.

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