@Edent @TomAoki I just had a flashback to hand-calculating monitor timings in the early 90s. This thread has made me excited to try Wayland. Looking forward to the new Mint release in a couple of months.

@Edent @flup
For anyone using kinda "distros" that comes with "default desktop environment" (curated) and/or having admins other than yourself, it may be true as you don't need (or don't allowed) to configure anything by yourself.

On the other hand, using OS'es that have no default desktop environmen (what to install and configure is fully on admins) like FreeBSD and you're the admin, you need to try and find which compositor fits you. In this case, "lower-level" configuration per compositor is toooo much a pain, thus, fatal. If you want to use such an environment of "freedom", you'll strongly want to configure "common to compositors" "lower-level" things to be configured only once and need to configure per-compositor things only afterwards.

I think this would be the difference between you and me.

@gijs that's exactly the kind of nonsense I don't have to put up with on Wayland. I click on monitors and have a nice GUI to set the resolution, rotation, scale, refresh rate, and position.