it's been bugging me for maybe a few weeks now that it seems like there is some kind of thing causing jankiness in my favourite crappy pixel art style game, Kingdom Two Crowns

well, it turns out that if i run Wayland it's smooth as butter, 120fps if the monitor is set that way, what you would expect for a low res game that weighs in under 3gb of total download

i have a licensed copy of Synergy now, which i probably won't use again for some time, but i have it... i hope they are close to making it work with wayland because i feel like this confirms that the 15 year long transition from X to Wayland has started to reach a point where it's better to use Wayland 

 of course, running wayland for cinnamon is a bag of shit, completely unstable, froze up and restarted, but was unresponsive

trying different kernels now with X see if this jank will not happen on an older kernel

linux kernel is so fucking bad with support for OPEN SOURCE AMD DRIVERS