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performance: apps are running on a subset of XOrg and xWayland translates it to Wayland
RAM: if you have no XWayland apps anymore you save RAM
features: some apps may have more features on XOrg, some may have more on Wayland. OBS on XWayland can record keystrokes, QGis on XWayland has not broken dockable toolbars.
You mean Electron?
The Arch wiki has docs about that.
For Flatpaks I use the environment variable
ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=waylandSee my dotfiles on github.com/boredsquirrel/dotfiles
Same possible for Qt
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=waylandIs there a noticeable benefit to those apps running natively on Wayland vs running through xWayland?
I have not checked this, but as far as I know