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Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett (marco-nett.de)
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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

On the topic of why people still say Wayland is slow, it probably was much much slower and only years of successive improvement in both the DE and base library got it up there in speed.

Personally I joined Linux recently and don’t understand all the beef with Wayland, but it does seem to work very well for me, so I’m happy enough with it.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Rule 1 of linux people. They hate change. Unless its the change they like. Then they love change and hate the old thing. Unless they change their mind then they hate the thing that they changed their mind on.

Rule 2 of linux people. The way things are right this second when they learn about it is the way it will be for the next 20 years. It doesnt matter what changes or how it changes. Unless they see it and experience it first hand it still works the same way as 20 years ago. But see rule 1 for why they will never go back and check on the progress of new software.

Everyone else can give you the reasons why these two rules are in effect for wayland. But these rules hold generally across an absolute crazy amount of the linux world. Honestly the software world in general...

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of people are holding legacy grudges about issues that have long since been fixed.

NVIDIA drivers used to be absolute hell on Linux, now they work decently well outside of some specific, older, hardware. But, if you listen to social media commentors (the source of all wisdom), you'd think that trying to boot a Linux machine with an NVIDIA card is literally(-figuratively) suicide.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A Linux user would never hold a grudge!

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Not even Torvalds himself would lash out at NVidia 😄