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Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"
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Gnome isn't orthogonal to Wayland.
You'd need to check if you were using the X11 or Wayland session of Gnome
Ok.. ? Then it was X11 that worked not Wayland.. ffs
Gnome has defaulted to Wayland for a long time, so it sounded more like you had an issue with a different desktop environment, not X11 vs Wayland