| > I personally had no gains, just losses. Depends. Screen tearing gets worse at higher refresh rates and resolutions under Xorg. Additionally fractional scaling and mixed DPI's are something Xorg was having great difficulty supporting. It also gets quite slow (high CPU and especially memory transfers) at high refresh rates and resolutions; I mean, you benefit from this without noticing. You'll notice a loss in functionality (like screen recording) much more than you'll see a benefit like "this will actually work at 8k 120Hz"; but it's not true that there's no gains. Wayland is fine, it fixes a lot of legacy that holds the ecosystem back, people don't like it overwhelmingly because changing esoteric and hacky software that is core to basically everything will be difficult and take time. It might shock you to know though that GNOME and Fedora users are already using Wayland on the popular distros, the transition was completely seamless for those users. |
On the other hand, my points still stand I think. And regarding esoteric and hacky software: I don't think accessibility as a base functionality should require hacky and esoteric stuff, it should be a first class citizen in a 2023 window manager (?).
And I also want to remind how Linux (and, ironically, Microsoft) grew so strong: they are really, really careful with deprecating old stuff. As hacky that stuff may be. Up for debate if this is net good, sure.