• ancap shark
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    37 months ago

    Please lecture me, I’m somewhat new to linux (I use it for some years now, but only Ubuntu, so you know). What’s the point of wayland?

    I mean, I get that it’s an alternative to Xorg, and it merges the server and client, but what does this mean to the end user?

    • callyral [he/they]
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      47 months ago

      the main thing i’ve heard about it is that it’s more actively developed than Xorg

    • i dont get screen tearing in games, videos or browsers on wayland and also seem to be getting less issues with compositing, which was a problem on x11 with i915 drivers for me

      • @CheesyFox@lemmy.world
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        17 months ago

        uhm… you get screen tearing on x11? Don’t you just turn on full composition pipeline or freesync in your graphics driver settings or by directly editing xorg.conf?

    • @dino@discuss.tchncs.de
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      07 months ago

      there is no reason to use something else as an enduser. Maybe as a backup or testing setup you could install something else, but apart from that…