Karna@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoWayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"www.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down112file-text
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minus-squareeleijeep@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 month agoWayland is just the protocol. You’re benchmarking a bunch of different wayland compositors against XOrg, and from the looks of things, at least one (mutter) is worse in every metric than XOrg, so the headline of the article is misleading.
minus-squarenovafunc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoPhoronix’s more real world testing didn’t have Gnome performing badly: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026
minus-squarelibewa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·1 month agoMutter is made by GNOME, what do you expect?
Wayland is just the protocol. You’re benchmarking a bunch of different wayland compositors against XOrg, and from the looks of things, at least one (mutter) is worse in every metric than XOrg, so the headline of the article is misleading.
Phoronix’s more real world testing didn’t have Gnome performing badly: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026
Mutter is made by GNOME, what do you expect?