[mafuyu]

This was my experience as well. On X11 + i3 (with no DE), latency and screen tearing was always an issue I had to fiddle with. Things came to a head when my 2021-release work Thinkpad started tearing driving an external 4K monitor over Thunderbolt. I switched over to Wayland + sway, and it was a night and day difference. Significantly better latency and no tearing, even driving two 4K displays with an Intel iGPU!

The laptop docking story is also significantly better. Waylands libinput lets me assign mouse accel and keyboard repeat rates/rebinds to specific devices, and they always get applied on hotswap, no custom udev rules needed. For audio, Pipewire is sensible and Just Works. Kanshi works sensibly in a way that I was never able to convince dockd to.

Wayland is what brought me from “I like Linux for a work/coding environment, but it’s too fiddly for a daily driver” to finally consistently using Linux in a personal and professional capacity.