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Wayland or X11? Why?
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Wayland if you have more that one monitor. X11 can support multiple monitors but it is a disaster.
Rustdesk doesn't work on Wayland and that is a real bummer
I run a dual monitor on X11 and never understood why people have issues with it? I'm by no means a Linux expert and I do run in Nvidia, I run different refresh rates. Can someone explain it to me?
If your monitors are different DPIs then multimonitor X11 is awful.
If you're questioning why anyone would have monitors with different DPIs remember that laptops exist.
Even without considering laptops, I can already imagine quite a few circumstances where someone might want monitors of differing DPIs. I've actually thought sometimes of getting a smaller monitor I can have off to the side that I display a browser window containing mostly text on when I'm playing videogames or working in something like Blender or Aseprite; yknow, for referencing a guide, wiki, or manual or something. I don't even have a super high desire for a multi-monitor setup outside of that.