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Interesting results, in a nutshell it seems like Wayland/Xwayland performance on both nVidia and AMD wins slightly more than it loses. Once VRR is live in nVidia 545 series driver, for 3D games, Wayland is looking to deliver a great experience. Performance when Wine's Wayland code is ready to mainline will be very interesting given that Xwayland needs will be negated at that point.

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[–] Defaced 1 points 2 years ago

My main issue with Wayland is screen recording. There are limitations to what you can record and in discord's case what you can steam. I can't steam individual game windows, it just shows up as a black screen. I refuse to use one of the updated clients in the AUR because regardless of what anyone says, that is in fact against the discord TOS, and I run a server with my close friends. I won't run the risk of getting my account banned all because I want to steam my desktop. I'm just gonna switch back to x11, the performance difference is negligible. I like Wayland for what it could be but at it stands there are just too many little things that get in the way.