Wayland Sucks On My Machine

Warning
this article is personal experience and speculation.


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Figure 1. wayland underload

All of these windows are the same terminal URXVT.

wayland video of zen (firefox) glitching

This has been my experience using wayland on my Nvidia 1660 super 6Gvram while running vrchat.

Discord, Firefox, and other graphical applications also do this. The windows will either glitch out like the image or not render. Wezterm, my Terminal Emulator will not open.

I have asked about twenty people about this to no avail.

This tends to only happen when my vram and/or my GPU is at full usage. To my understanding. This happens because Nvidia drivers do not swap vram to ram. And that this is primarily a Nvidia driver issue.

X11 behaves way better. My terminal may sometimes unload or turn into minecraft enchanting table but it generally works. And windows generally dont ever freeze. At least not nearly as easily as wayland does.