@emilianosandri@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Post #1670371
2026-01-20 23:14 UTC
@jamesb192 @tofu @sawaba @pluralistic @iFixit Wayland and X11 have very different philosophies, the fact that in Wayland you basically have to build your own compositor brings challenges unique to it and makes smaller window manager harder to implement reinforcing GNOME/KDE duopoly
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@tofu@is-a.cat 2026-01-20 23:16
@emilianosandri @jamesb192 @sawaba @pluralistic @iFixit That and the fact that even with wlroots you have to crank out boilerplate code to support extensions to get basic functionality are ruining it. Then you have forced vsync that's causing issues as well as the higher memory footprint and having to give it some GPU resources. If you use any X11 software within wayland, you'll have a spare X11 server running in the background. Gamescope? Another one gets added into the mix.