Post #3324876

I’d like to chime in on the “average hardware” claim. The idea that Wayland is more demanding to run than X11 is a misconception. Mutter (Gnome’s compositor) and kwin (KDE’s compositor) are more demanding than xorg plus a simple window manager. Usually that’s what people used to compare when they say that Wayland is demanding, and now they just keep repeating it. In actuality, the Wayland protocol is more efficient by nature. So a light Wayland compositor (e.g. labwc) will run better on limited hardware, than a light X11 window manager. Tho, Wayland requires proper EGL support, which you might not have on some old exotic hardware (e.g. a Tegra 2/3/4 tablet). The example I usually make is: Dig up an old intel atom netbook (it’s old and Try using regular lxqt on x11 Now try lxqt on labwc See which one you’d rather use