Why do so many people spell choked as chocked ? I always see it but never understand why it ' s such a common misspelling <| sep |> I know . I ' m saying that ' s how it was in the real world . The planes back then were very fragile and susceptible to damage . <| sep |> He can ' t get fired anyway <| sep |> You play with veggies ? <| sep |> When you say stocks , do you just mean JNUG ? <| sep |> This is an amazing comment . What a hoot . <| sep |> Wayland will need to keep vertical sync enabled with the drivers to eliminate tearing completely . Xorg composited desktops plasmagnome help with tearing significantly because they only require the app to redraw if there is any changes to the size or content of the window . Hence they tend ' render ' the display much quicker . Meanwhile Xorg noncomposited desktops have the applications render directly to the display buffer . Simple acts like running the mouse over the window or moving a window around destroys the content of the window forcing the application to rerender . Double buffering and such things help , but it ' s just a bandaid . Thus the ' modern ' X 11 compositing desktops like Plasma or Gnome simply reduce the amount of tearing you are likely to see , but are not able to eliminate it completely . This is why it usually only is obvious when playing games or watching videos full screen on these types of desktops . Wayland , if it has proper drivers and such things , should be able to eliminate tearing 100 % by ' vsync ' ng itself to the displays . The way it does composting is much more efficient then Xorg , as well . I don ' t know if Wayland is ' full vsync ' yet or not , though .