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I tried sway and foot (as replacement for i3 and xterm) and found the input latency to be really bad. Is this a Wayland problem or was i having bad luck with foot?

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I had ever-worsening input lag issues on my daily-driver ubuntu-based laptop for a couple of years. I tried a bunch of finnicky things, with very little benefit.

Then I switched to xanmod kernel. It was like I had an entirely new machine. It's remarkable. I kind of wish most newbie-friendly desktop environments recommended installing it on setup (it's easy to do via package manager.)

I switched my 2012 thinkpad from dwm+st to sway+alacritty a couple years ago and noticed no difference in input latency.

The input latency should be good normally. I play steam games on Wayland and they're smooth and responsive. Could be some weird thing for your specific config / hardware, but it's not broken overall.

Rather bad luck, I have much better experience with Wayland than X. Generally, moving to Wayland and PipeWire improved my experience with Linux desktop so much it's comparable with Mac/Win.

Pipewire got comparable to Mac/win months ago and now it's years ahead in terms of capabilities. BT codec switching on request, fully configurable graph of connections, multi input/output, sub-20ms BT delay, jack compatibility, etc. It's the biggest software success I've seen in a really long time and I don't expect other systems to catch up to the current state for many many years.

To be a complete success, PipeWire merely needed to work at all.

foot uses software rendering only. How good is your CPU? It may have been Vsync... I think there has been progress on allowing the user to disable it.

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