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Firefox (finally) enables Wayland by default on their builds
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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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That's a feature, stop buying hardware from vendors that treat GNU/Linux and *BSD users as second-class citizens and locks them into proprietary drivers.
Seems to work just fine on FreeBSD.
Gaming performance is actually better on Wayland.
Nowadays I buy a new graphics card maybe twice a decade. I'm not changing the card for software.
Also, we're all using proprietary hardware. Be serious. If you tried to never use anything proprietary you'd never use anything. You're using like a dozen of them right now.
Sure, I have proprietary bits on my kernel and my AMD GPU needs proprietary firmware loaded to work, but that's a hell lot different than the situation NVIDIA shoves users into. It's one thing to have small proprietary components that don't bother me or break my workflow, it's another to have black box drivers that can bork my setup if I dare to update my packages.
*on some games...
Did you read your own source? They covered:
Cyberpunk2077 (slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, slight advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
DiRT Rally 2.0 ( X.Org is clear winner...)
F1 22 (Slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, clear advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
GTA V (Clear advantage to X.Org Nvidia only... Since AMD was having driver issues with this game)
Hitman 3 (Slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, clear advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
Metro Last Light Redux (Slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, clear advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, clear advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, clear advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
X-Plane 12 (Slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, clear advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
Quake 2 RTX (slight advantage to Wayland on AMD, slight advantage to X.Org on Nvidia)
Where "slight" is within a few frames... let's call it 0-5 frames... and clear advantage is ~10 frames+...
It's clear that X.org is better overall. It's capable of giving the user more options in hardware with less bullshit.