{
  "id": 3319930,
  "title": "Wayland Found To Be \"Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/wayland-found-to-be-intrinsically-faster-than-x11-but-not-necessarily",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-25T17:37:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into \"xfwm4-gl\" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}