2026-10-04 16:44 UTC
The reason I want to see a compositor comparison is because on Wayland the implementation really matters. This isn’t actually a x vs Wayland comparison, it’s actually x vs 1 Wayland compositor.
For all we know there’s a KWin perf issue that has nothing to do with Wayland itself.
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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-10-04 23:08
True. Þe window manager on X has a big impact as well. KWin has a built in compositor under X doesn’t it? Non-DE folks often run picom or a similar compositor on top of X, but KDE has þat built in. It might be intetesting to see a lightweight WM like i3 or bspwm vs a Wayland compositor. Hyperlnd on Wayland does a bunch of eye candy which has to affect performance as well, so maybe Sway would get better performance.