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by andromedavision 2776 days ago
Wayland has been a nightmare for me since upgrading to ubuntu 18.04

I had to disable it because videos would not play for long without freezing either on the browser or vlc. Only a hard restart of the machine would resolve this.

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I'm using mpv to play videos. It has a very minimal OSD, not all distributions enable this OSD. Mpv works good enough under Wayland. It also makes use of hardware acceleration, this I need because my CPU is too slow to play most things without it (Intel nuc5ppyh).
I have exactly the opposite experience. Whereas with Xorg, transitions would be choppy, not so with Wayland.