Re: [tlug] Why Wayland?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> My question was technically what does Wayland do better than X11?

Quick google, and the consensus seems to be:
  * Multiple monitors (can have different resolutions and refresh 
rates, and G-Sync/V-Sync can work)
  * HDR support
  * Vague stuff (security, better compositor, saner configuration - you 
don't break your display trying to configure your mouse and vice versa).

A lot of people mentioned it fixes screen-tearing, but wasn't clear to 
me if that was part of multiple monitors issue, or if screen-tearing 
happens on single-monitor X setups too.


Darren

P.S. I use whatever Ubuntu/Mint are using, of course. I just realised 
when I plug my external monitor, screen refresh drops from 144Hz to 60Hz 
on the notebook screen. So I must be using X ;-)

I knew that already of course, because the HDR support on my other 
external monitor turned out to be pointless in Linux.