[ChuckNorris89]

Cool. Can I ask why does valve/steamdeck use Gamescope and not Wayland?

To my very limited understanding they both target to do more or less the same thing, and I think we have enough fragmentation in the Linux ecosystem as it is, so to my uninitiated brain it would have seemed logical to put al that development effort in improving Wayland for the steamdeck instead of building another compositor.

Thanks in advance.

[goosedragons]

Wayland is just a protocol. GNOME and KDE both use their own Wayland compositors for example. Gamescope as a gaming focused Wayland compositor probably has more emphasis on things like latency than other compositors.

[airminer]

Wayland is not a compositor. It is a protocol for (compositing) display servers to use. And gamescope is a Wayland display server.