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Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"
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Last time I tried wayland (with sway), Krita didn't support it natively, and tho you could run it with xwayland, there was an insufferable cursor offset bug that I couldn't get rid of safe by returning to X11 (with i3). Supposedly, Krita now supports wayland so I figured I might try again... But when I got the error in sway saying it didn't support proprietary nvidia drivers, I figured I just... Wouldn't do that. Yeah, maybe it'd work just switching to nouveau drivers, but I've wrestled with nvidia drivers and haven't had a problem about it for a while, I don't want to shake that wasp's nest again. And I don't know how many other parts of my config I'm gonna have to change as well, and I don't feel like doing that now. At this point I don't have any reason not to switch to wayland, but I also don't really have much reason to switch, and being marginally faster isn't enough for me.