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Hello everyone. I've read some posts before about Linux behaving poorly when using multiple monitors that have a different refresh rate.

Does anybody here know if X11 + AMDGPU + Mesa + Gnome handles this correctly? I'm thinking of getting a high refresh rate monitor (120hz+) while keeping my secondary at 60hz.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't have to put up with Nvidia and there's nothing tying you to X11 I recommend making the jump to Wayland, a lot of these sorts of issues have been solved over there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've tried wayland but it seems like games often don't work :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't had any problems with gaming in Wayland. Perhaps you haven't configured it properly, especially if it wasn't default installed on your system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What DE and distro did you try Wayland with? All games should work as they did on X11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gnome and Pop OS. I only briefly tried Wayland but multiple games just failed to launch or would launch and then crash not launch again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@sosodev @priapus

You might want to try it again, I haven't had any issues really and I am using hyprland these days.