@meeper @icedquinn thats just because wayland has compositing built in while on xorg its either a driver option or you need a compositor a top of it.
but tearing is good sometimes, reminder that wayland only recently ever implemented it despite being unconditionally opposed to it for the longest time because games were unplayable
the shitty thing about linux is that everytime it gets usable and decent and people start to switch over, shitheads like lennart poettering decide to start major components of the conventional desktop from scratch and do it even worse when they worked just fine and were never an issue
the only part of this that ever was a good idea imho was pulseaudio and thats only because of the absolutely hell linux's audio shit was at the time with like a dozen competiting and conflicting standards all atop alsa