alt Hacker NewsThat’s interesting. I have the opposite effect—X11 always had jank and latency, to the point that it drove me to windows for a couple of years.
This is with multiple monitors on Nvidia’s, all of which support vsync. Disabling that did help, but why would I want to?
Wayland, currently, is butter smooth.
It's faux smoothness caused by the mandatory vsync. There's several frames of delay in Wayland which apparently you're not sensitive to