Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/908561/

The artemis.sh blog has a
detailed review of the state of Wayland compared to X.org.

It feels fantastic. It even made my software cursor
not feel so softwarey, which I’ve never experienced with a software
cursor before. I have a pretty bad GPU, but on a higher end card
you’d get a huge benefit to this in games. If your card can render
the game many times faster than your monitor refresh rate, you can
unlock your FPS in the game, tune your max_render_time to the
absolute minimum, and get EXTREMELY low latency while still having
absolutely no screen tearing whatsoever.

And like, this is the first time I’ve ever seen the vsync setting
in a game actually sync the game up with the vblank interval in a
way that matters. It works for games in wine. It’s amazing. I have
never experienced gaming on Linux that looked this smooth in my
life.