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One pro of Wayland is better multi-monitor. X11 can't really handle mixed refresh rates, nor multi-monitor VRR, and per-monitor DPI scaling isn't easily done. Of course, Nvidia doesn't support Wayland VRR yet, nor does GNOME, but Plasma or wlroots on AMD should work. Wlroots btw is the Wayland compositor library e.g. Sway and Hyprland is based on.
Forced vsync has been a problem for gaming on Wayland, though that's in the process of changing due to the tearing protocol, at least on Plasma and wlroots, doesn't seem like GNOME has picked it up yet.
This (multi-monitor support) is exactly why I switched to sway from i3wm, and haven't looked back.
Not a gamer, so I can't speak to that aspect, but for everything I do there's not much difference.
@lack @LaggyKar wanted to try sway or other wayland based DE for better monitor support but being dependent on xkb for colemak keyboard prevents that.
Need to find a solid keyboard solution that works on wayland as well as in X11.
I do use a Dvorak_ES layout and it works perfectly fine in both Sway and Hyprland. I assume Colemark would too.
@SrEstegosaurio I use colemak from bigbagtrix that applies it via setxkbmap. Tried that on fedora sway spin, wouldnt work erroring cos it needed X11. Maybe should try out in other WMs like you said or try using kmonad.
xkb layout options are set in the sway configuration file in the
inputsection: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/sway#Keymapexcept unfortunately sway doesn't actually support VRR the way it's suppose to be used. Currently VRR is active until you make a window full screen, once a window is full screen VRR doesn't work anymore. So pretty much exactly backwards from how it's suppose to work.
Hyprland does VRR right but it has several other issues that make sway the better choice for now, just with VRR disabled.
Do you uave any experience with bspwm and WL? Thats what I plan on going with
I do not. But bspwm looks like an X window manager, so doesn't support Wayland.
Aha, that I didnt know. So i guess I need to find a bspwm-like WM for wayland (tiling in the same manner as bspwm. I never liked i3s way of doing tiling)