[SaintSeiya]

Why this does not surprise me? every attempt to rewrite a working solution to make it more "modern, easy to maintain and future proof" rarely do so. It always end up slower, with more latency and lifted by faster hardware, not by faster software. Every 20 years a new generation comes weaker, pampered with the abtsractions of the previous generations who did the grunt work for them. After 3 generations of software developers all we have is library/framework callers and nobody really knows about performance and optimization.

[kombine]

This is not my experience. When I upgraded several of my computers to KDE 6 switching to Wayland, overall responsiveness and snappiness of the system increased very visibly. There are still features that Wayland lacks compared to X11, but I am willing to compromise in favor of its other benefits.

[dvdkon]

Same here, switching from i3 to sway resulted in a noticeably more responsive experience on my aging hardware. Of course, this is just an anecdote, and I could probably get the same results on X with some fiddling, but I do think the value of simpler and more modern systems is demonstrated here.

[guappa]

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After upgrading to plasma6 from 5, all the desktop animations have started stuttering. Probably your hardware is too new.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

On the other hand, I just did a fresh install of Artix Linux. Installed KDE just to have something functional while I get my tiling setup working. Boot into Plasma(Wayland) and it utterly shits itself, turning my main monitor on and off repeatedly until it finally crashes. So I pick Plasma(X11) instead and that just works.

In fact, in almost 2 decades of using Linux every day, I can't remember X doing anything similar. It's always just worked.

[prmoustache]

Old computers had less latency, but otoh on many OSes a single app crashing meant the whole OS was irresponsive and you had to reboot the whole system.

[Avamander]

Less latency matters little if it's just to wait behind some other operation like disk IO or network.