No idea about the other downvotes, but mine you got for being a d*ck. Maybe read the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? They say things like this:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

I have the same pleasant experience with KDE on Wayland.

I finally switched from i3/xorg with Mate desktop tools to KDE/Wayland a year ago.

It's butter smooth, low latency, no tearing, fractional scaling is working fantastic. Thanks to pipewire, screenshots are captured into the clipboard manager and video capture/visio sharing offers fine control over which window or monitor(s) to share.

I think KDE has done tremendous work there, because compared to Gnome on Wayland it's night and day in performance.

Note that I am a 20y Linux desktop user and I have been using MS Windows regularly and a little bit MacOS for work few times per months.

If I were to rank the perception of fluidity (latency, tearing, stutter, CPU/GPU load), from best to worst: - KDE/Wayland (I turn off all animations) - MS Windows - i3/Xorg (hello tearing) - MacOS (smooth but lag, even on M2, it could be some intentional animation/delay I am not sure)

I can finally enjoy the future of the Linux Desktop: On my thinkpad 14 AMD Gen2 , 1080p screen, plugged into a 4k monitor at 120hz, OBS can record my screen at 4k 60fps in software using 40% CPU, and 4k 30fs on the GPU using 8% CPU.

Those are definite improvements compared to Xorg. So as a user, I am liking the Wayland stuff quite a lot.

If only we could have the MacOS touchpad experience, and the MS Windows mouse ballistic. And my life would finally be complete.

Good grief, why so nasty about it? It's just software.

I share your sympathy for Wayland over X11 for bringing the Linux desktop into the 21st century (VRR, mixed DPI, …).

But you're flat-out wrong about Windows. It supports any of those flawlessly and with backwards compatibility.

Genuine question, are you saying this as a non Linux user looking at Linux, or as a wayland user looking at X.org?

Update: or as an X.org user looking at wayland? (Also I am not among the downvoters fwiw)

Update 2: thanks for clarifying

It's not actually clear whether you're using Wayland and complaining about X11, or the other way around... (or on a different OS altogether...)

And other than VRR (dunno if I have it, I haven't tried) and I guess fractional scaling (but -again- I haven't tried, so dunno if it works) I get all that in xorg.

Maybe you're running Gnome, which -I guess- has decided to fail to make that work on xorg?