File under "Falsehoods developers believe about laptops."

I am quite sure no developer out there uses a lowly 2019 laptop for their work. Most probably have 32-core top-of-the-line systems

There are many many casual developers.

And running a current operating system on old hardware is a very common reason for choosing Linux. And broken shit that used to work is a far more critical metric in the real world that anything measured for the article.

this. I know multiple people running lenovo x200 and x210 as their main daily driver

That doesn’t seem like a big cost, especially since it pays for important features. I can’t use my 4K monitors without fractional, as an example.

> In terms of interrupts and context switches, Wayland executed at least 25% more interrupts and 48% more context switches in the best case.

So less resources available for other programs. An improuvment.