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Wayland vs. X11 Comparisons(dedoimedo.com)
19 points by indy 2 days ago | 4 comments
  • brudgersa day ago

    File under "Falsehoods developers believe about laptops."

    I am quite sure no developer out there uses a lowly 2019 laptop for their work. Most probably have 32-core top-of-the-line systems

    There are many many casual developers.

    And running a current operating system on old hardware is a very common reason for choosing Linux. And broken shit that used to work is a far more critical metric in the real world that anything measured for the article.

    • opengearsa day ago |parent

      this. I know multiple people running lenovo x200 and x210 as their main daily driver

  • dontlaugha day ago

    That doesn’t seem like a big cost, especially since it pays for important features. I can’t use my 4K monitors without fractional, as an example.

  • hulitua day ago

    > In terms of interrupts and context switches, Wayland executed at least 25% more interrupts and 48% more context switches in the best case.

    So less resources available for other programs. An improuvment.