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minus-squareeleijeep@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days agoWayland is just the protocol. You’re benchmarking a bunch of different wayland compositors against XOrg, and from the looks of things, at least one (mutter) is worse in every metric than XOrg, so the headline of the article is misleading.
minus-squarenovafunc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoPhoronix’s more real world testing didn’t have Gnome performing badly: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026
minus-squarelibewa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·2 days agoMutter is made by GNOME, what do you expect?
Wayland is just the protocol. You’re benchmarking a bunch of different wayland compositors against XOrg, and from the looks of things, at least one (mutter) is worse in every metric than XOrg, so the headline of the article is misleading.
Phoronix’s more real world testing didn’t have Gnome performing badly: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026
Mutter is made by GNOME, what do you expect?