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  • KDE Plasma Wayland, I’m using it for gaming mainly and occasionally for VR.

    Pros:

    • supports DRM leasing mandatory for wired VR headsets
    • supports tearing (also in windowed apps but requires an additional setting) which reduces input latency in games
    • usually all the new fancy features, ex. HDR, appear quickly
    • decent support for fractional scaling (handy on laptops)

    Cons:

    • you might encounter bugs. While Plasma 6 has been a much better experience as opposed to older versions of it, there are still some bugs here and there appearing between the updates. As of this writing thought I can’t recall any bugs on my system.




  • If you’re playing competitive FPS games then Wayland still isn’t there, use X11 instead. Outside of it, I’d say it’s worth a shot, it goes especially well with FreeSync monitors.

    Your experience will vary from your GPU vendor too. I have an AMD card so Wayland is a smooth experience for me, if you’re on Nvidia then you will most likely face issues.

    I’ve noticed a bug where in GPU bound scenarios entire desktop is lagging. This issue happens for me on Wayland but not X11. I don’t know what’s causing it, could be my graphics card running out of its 4 GB of VRAM.

    TL;DR give it a try, you can easily switch between X11 and Wayland.