• CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There is no advantage to games and average applications preferring Wayland over X11 – only severe performance and unusability regressions right now. Thus, we must revert this change until fifo-v1 and commit-timing-v1 are released and at least in a stable release for major compositors."

    Does this mean I’ve been getting reduced performance for using Wayland when playing games? I haven’t noticed any difference but I haven’t been benchmarking.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    With the SDL library that’s widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11,

    Does this read really convoluted/weirdly phrased?

    • iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It’s quite common with Phoronix. Larabel’s running a committed and consistent open source news aggregator, but his English isn’t the best.