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> How can people accept to use a display manager with constant screen tearing is beside me.

I'm not saying this isn't true, but I always find it interesting when I see people complain about screen tearing.

How often does it actually happen to you, and under which circumstances?

Personally I've been using computers since 1995, (Windows and Linux) and I practically never encounter screen tearing. And this is on a wide variety of hardware. Spread evenly over intel, nvidia, and AMD.

The rare times I did encounter it, was only on one PC with an ancient nvidia graphics card (running Arch linux, bspwm). And it would only ever (if even) happen right before a restart after updating the nvidia drivers.



>> I'm not saying this isn't true, but I always find it interesting when I see people complain about screen tearing.

>> How often does it actually happen to you, and under which circumstances?

It happens every time I Watch a video on X, which is really annoying. It also happens when dragging large windows on my 4k. Wayland is fantastic in this regard.


> How often does it actually happen to you, and under which circumstances?

Scrolling, moving windows, resizing windows, approximately constantly.


Then you haven't switched on Full Composition Pipeline on your nvidia card (if you're using nvidia that is).

I've been enjoying silky smooth Xorg and video for a very, very long time.




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