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Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient" (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

GNOME stopped supporting x11 this year, and prior to that the x11 session was in maintenance mode for years - wayland has been the default since 2017.