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Desktop environments: performance vs modern look
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I tried it just yesterday.
Wayland support does exist in cinnamon. You can enter a wayland session and it will work. But it doesn't bring to the table all the expected wayland improvements, like for instant perfect fractional scaling.
What does instant perfect fractional scaling mean?
Imagine you want to scale your desktop at 125%.
On X11 it was really hard to so so, and not very good. It basically worked by doing some strange tricks with the resolution, tanking performance and making it having numerous visual bugs, screen tearing or blurry fonts. And you often had to close and open the session for it to apply.
With wayland is possible to have fractional scaling without those issues. With crisps fonts, performant, and everything just working as expected. Also it could change easily within the session.
But wayland allowing for it doesn't mean that all compositors have implemented it. Most still have issues. I think KDE was one of the fews that just recently anounced that they solved that problem and that you can scale the desktop without any worries.
That sounds promising! I've been experience this issue with my Thinkpad T14 with the incredibly stupid 1080p resolution. I'll try some options with Wayland there.