Does Using GNOME On Wayland Save Power?

[johnc]

But in the end wayland plays much better with blobs than X. You can turn it as you want, but it's still a point against X. A strong one, that is: wayland works with every chip used on Android, whereas X support is much less stellar for these.

That is a good point. Developing a driver for X could be a hell of a lot harder than for Wayland. So give that as a point for Wayland.

Though I also think for some of these embedded-type devices where you don't need a full display server / window manager / compositor / whatever, you might be better off with something even leaner like directfb or whatever else is out there.

[dungeon]

But in the end wayland plays much better with blobs than X.

Probably but let said that only for ARM, whose drivers does not even have tradition in X and on x86 there is no blob drivers for Wayland.

So for Desktop side, x86 and blobs - that claim is not true at all.

[CrystalGamma]

Probably but let said that only for ARM, whose drivers does not even have tradition in X and on x86 there is no blob drivers for Wayland.

So for Desktop side, x86 and blobs - that claim is not true at all.

But desktop has better FOSS drivers anyway, so there's that.

[erendorn]

That is a good point. Developing a driver for X could be a hell of a lot harder than for Wayland. So give that as a point for Wayland.

Though I also think for some of these embedded-type devices where you don't need a full display server / window manager / compositor / whatever, you might be better off with something even leaner like directfb or whatever else is out there.

I think there's the full-screen shell protocol just for that use-case.

Probably but let said that only for ARM, whose drivers does not even have tradition in X and on x86 there is no blob drivers for Wayland.
So for Desktop side, x86 and blobs - that claim is not true at all.

NVidia publicly said they were working on wayland/Mir support (or any KMS + EGL based system). Intel and AMD open source drivers already work.
In any case the point still stands: it is easier (and more generic) to write a driver providing KMS + EGL than writting a driver for X, even for x86. The fact that X had a headstart of several decades does not change that.