▲ 370 ▼ Linux Mint bringing Wayland sessions to Cinnamon (blog.linuxmint.com) submitted 2 years ago by ZcaT@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 86 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) Gaming. Frame rates on Wayland are horrible as compared to on X11 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can't replicate your results here. I play on Wayland, and deliberately force some games to run natively on Wayland (SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland) and so far I haven't noticed any framerate changes except statistical noise. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago* Even the FPS monitor numbers show the same but there is visible lag when playing on wayland as against X11 (you'll perhaps need a side-by-side comparison to notice). This isn't just my observation, it's well-known in the linux gaming community permalink fedilink source parent [+] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 1 point 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/n-eq6SBfGfo?si=yErL8VuItnvk5D8c Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can't replicate your results here. I play on Wayland, and deliberately force some games to run natively on Wayland (SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland) and so far I haven't noticed any framerate changes except statistical noise. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago* Even the FPS monitor numbers show the same but there is visible lag when playing on wayland as against X11 (you'll perhaps need a side-by-side comparison to notice). This isn't just my observation, it's well-known in the linux gaming community permalink fedilink source parent
[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago* Even the FPS monitor numbers show the same but there is visible lag when playing on wayland as against X11 (you'll perhaps need a side-by-side comparison to notice). This isn't just my observation, it's well-known in the linux gaming community permalink fedilink source parent
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