Incredibly important for Nvidia users. Nvidia's driver is built around explicit sync. There's a bug for Xwayland apps where the windows flicker constantly. This will fix that issue.
Increase perfomance? No, not in a noticeable way at least. Make it more maintainable and future-proof because it plays nice with Vulkan concepts, making the future migration of compositors from OpenGL to Vulkan? Absolutely
As an NVIDIA user I can't wait for explicit sync to be an actual thing. I'm at the point where everything on Fedora *just works* on Wayland except for Steam games flickering.
I'm lucky enough to be using a dual GPU laptop with Fedora 39 so I don't run into many of the Nvidia issues in Wayland, and can use it solely for games.
That said, I'd like to move my Desktop over one day which only has a 3080 Ti and seeing explicit sync, hdr, and vrr coming along and on the roadmap makes me happy.
I tried various distros many years ago and things are way, way more functional from the start. So far, I've been able to solve almost all my issues with a little bit of work which is nice too
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