[ilikehurdles]

> there will never be an option to disable things like composition or vsync

Wait, is there a coupling between composition and vsync? I do enjoy playing games on linux, and forcing vsync enabled is an absolute non starter for me.

[nwallin]

There is no hard dependency between composition and vsync. You can disable composition with vsync enabled, or you can have composition with novsync. (in practice they tend to be highly correlated)

However, Wayland supports neither disabling vsync nor disabling composition. Moreover, it was architected this way; there's not really any hope of disabling the compositor. Freesync looks kinda sorta like vsync if you squint at it right, so maybe there's hope for freesync in the distant future. But right now, Wayland does not support freesync, nor are there plans to implement it. Gaming on Wayland is 'lol nope' at this point, and will remain that way for the forseeable future.

This news is deeply troubling.