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Tearing protocol merged for XWayland. Wayland gets closer to being suitable for gaming purposes
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I habe been gaming on wayland for over a year and haven’t noticed any difference.
Maybe in super competitive games you may notice something but for the average gamer I think wayland has been viable for gaming for a rather long time.
It depends on your hardware. I notice it a lot on my Radeon 680M. I get bad input lag and inconsistent frame pacing. Performance matters when it comes to gaming and if Linux is to be taken seriously as a gaming platform these issues need to be addressed.
Yeah, was about to say: it's already suitable for me! Played a bunch of Steam games, as well as pirated games with Bottles.