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by kaba0 1135 days ago
“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.

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> 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.

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