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Is GNOME the only desktop environment going forward with wayland at this point? Wayland has been the only way I can enjoy tear-free, config-tweak-free video on Linux for the past few years, and that leaves me stuck with either GNOME or something like Sway. Mate would be a great middle ground but I don't want to have to mess with compositors again.

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KDE is still pushing ahead with Wayland. I just fixed my screen tearing on x11 Kubuntu yesterday though, it was just one command to enable Optimus synchronization. (I know, that's a config tweak). I haven't tried Kde Wayland.

KDE is working on it too. I'm not sure if it is considered ready but there are a number of developers using KDE on Wayland, and have been for years. Getting all the bugs out is hard.

Well, GNOME people came up with it, others - especially the smaller desktops/WMs who do not exactly have RedHat money behind them - didn't really ask for it.

In any case, it certainly isn't config-free but it should be an one time thing only and then you should be able to have tear-free video playback on Linux under Xorg just fine. It is really up to your video player to do it though. Personally i do not remember having issues with VLC using either AMD or Nvidia GPUs.

It seems like GNOME, KDE and Sway are the only serious wayland options.

The article states that the window manager eliminates tearing. Haven't tested it yet myself.

Mate is moving in this direction too via Mir, I have no idea where they are though.

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