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Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett (marco-nett.de)
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Really cool research. Overall, X11 still wins compared to Wayland(kwin) but only by 0.14 - 0.22 ms. The really bad performance hit is from XWayland which added 3.13 ms.

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 7 points 15 hours ago

They haven't