I have XANMOD kernel. Trust me its just wayland struggling to smoothly draw frames on the screen. I know exactly what its doing wrong but no idea how to fix it.

I can generate the same issue on X11 in certain games if I enable my second monitor. Yes I know they fixed that sync issue while ago with a xorg conf but its still a issue for some titles.

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Quoting: melkemindYou mean until Nvidia catches up, right?

Nope, I have a 6800XT and Wayland overall is a mess, BAD desktop experience.
If things don't crash freeze on you, they have config or font dpi issues, or you need to edit DIFFERENT things to get DPI or font things fixed. OR you discover many of your backend tools you enjoyed and used in X11 will simply not work, and there is no substitute under wayland.

The list of little issues that add up to a MASSIVE HEADACHE keeps going on and on... Sorry, no sell for me! I actually need a functional desktop environment!

Doesn't help that every game I try on Wayland the frame pacing and performance is just terrible, Imagine playing a game at 100fps but it feels like 20!!!!

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Quoting: drjomsWhat scheduler you have?

Performance

Freesync is only available on Primary screen. IN saying that freesync is the magic bullet to fix these types of issues and games should still be relatively smooth even without vsync.

Wish amdgpu would introduce fastsync or whatever AMD Utilities has under Windows.

I use ARCH but this list sums up Wayland issue.
It's going to need much more support to become a standard;

I do know there is a selection of blank canvas WM that use wlroots such as Sway and Wayfire but those require HEAVY amount of customisation to become a actually fully fledged usable desktop environment, and even still have lots of missing features. (and aren't stable)

https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#Desktops [External Link]

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Yeah IMO Wayland is still years away from prime time.
I was thinking maybe 1 year but its just such a trash experience in many ways. At least for Plasma.

The only other option is GNOME which is a little better. Until all the other WM/DE catch up its always going to be rather experimental. (and also all apps need to support it)

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I get choppy experience with a second monitor connected in many games (X11) and in Wayland the gaming experience is generally choppy (frames just randomly dropped to screen, no pace/smooth). This is with a 6800XT.

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I remember someone saying they fixed the fan noise a fair bit by inserting a bit of film between fan and casing. So part of the noise may be mechanical which isn't uncommon on laptops and PC's even. Often caused when a fan is up side down.

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I think if you install EGLStreams then Wayland works better.

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Valve already did all these tests themselves. I mean what do people expect to happen? your gonna break it obviously! THE REAL TEST is reliability over time, such as thumb stick drift etc... who accidentally cuts their deck in half ever?

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I have only seen largely positive things about the Steam Deck. Yet to come across a single BAD TAKE on this device. Probably some Windows user extremist channels, lmao

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Quoting: TrainDocI've been waiting for another Valve VR headset for 3 years now. Gabe really should stop lying to the public that he knows what's going on at Valve when he clearly doesn't.

Well your in luck because I think the Deckard will be announced this year sometime in Q4. As for how affordable it will be?! I dunno. I might just save up for it anyway as I hate Meta.

As for Steam Deck 2, I can see that happening by the time they sort out delivering this thing to Australia which has traditionally taken at least 2 years to do supply chain wise. But normally once they get the first one sorted, the second edition hardware comes faster, not sure why that is.

ATM we have covid wreaking our postal system here adding significant delivery times for normal items. Restrictions are all lifted, death rate sky rockets... shrug..

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