[George83728]

I get better performance (longer battery life, higher FPS in games, etc) with X. I'm not opposed to new software, I now use pipewire instead of pulseaudio. Pipewire is newer and I like it a lot because it actually works better for me. Ever since I switched to it, I've never had a single problem connecting my headphones (which was a nightmare under pulseaudio.)

"People who don't like my software just hate all change" is just a cope cliche line from people who can't out-compete old software on the merits which are valued by users. Instead they tell users that their values are wrong ("Why do you need that?") and then accuse them of hating change.

[kaba0]

Games usually don’t go through the traditional compositor cycle of Wayland anymore so there shouldn’t be a difference.

For non-gaming usage Wayland should actually be better for battery life as the protocol is less chatty. Though of course it depends on which implementation you use.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> For non-gaming usage Wayland should actually be better for battery life as the protocol is less chatty.

"should" is one thing, but you're responding to someone who appears to have actually observed the opposite in reality, so that's not really helpful

[kaba0]

“Though of course it depends on which implementation you use”.

Also, wayland is huge in the embedded sector, e.g. many car display uses it, specifically because they cheap out on hardware, but wayland still runs just fine, unlike X.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> specifically because they cheap out on hardware, but wayland still runs just fine, unlike X.

X was born on Unix workstations in the late 80s and had acceptable performance; there has to be more to it than that.

[kaba0]

You no longer draw 3 lines as GUI, nor do you have like a 100 pixels on a screen.