[SweetestRug]

> Wayland is really slow

I have to wonder if this is distribution dependent? On Manjaro my experience with Wayland has been fantastic. I cannot perceive any speed differences vs X.org; Wayland just flies.

It would be interesting to poll users and see just what factors are contributing to speed issues. GPU? CPU? Distribution? Wlroots vs Gnome? etc. Learning more about what users experience could be helpful in making Wayland better. Has anyone done this?

[ironmagma]

This is a great idea. So many Linux issues go undiagnosed because the response is so often “it works fine for me, on my <insert insanely overpowered system specs here>.”

[sergeykish]

I've found GamingOnLinux statistics [1]. Mostly X11, wayland 7%. But look at the other data:

* Both Ubuntu and Arch based distro 40%

* Manjaro helped a lot 15%

* Both AMD and Intel 50%

* AMD GPU 40% and rising

* Open source GPU driver 43% (almost all of it AMD)

* 10% own VR Headset

[1] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...

[microcolonel]

Yeah, I think there are a lot of distro bugs, and a lot of old or mismatched packages, outside of the Arch/Manjaro ecosystem. This hurts the impression of Mesa, the Kernel, and basically anything else like this where there's no good reason conventional distros shouldn't ship new feature releases at least a bit more frequently than they do.