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		prmoustache 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency ... Old computers had less latency, but otoh on many OSes a single app crashing meant the whole OS was irresponsive and you had to reboot the whole system.

Avamander 12 months ago [–]

Less latency matters little if it's just to wait behind some other operation like disk IO or network.

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