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Between Windows, macOS, and the major Linux desktop environments, practically no one is using a non-composited desktop these days.

Compositors tend to aim for 60fps, because that's what most displays can handle. That means you _start_ with 16ms worst case latency on the output side.

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You can use one of the many bare-bones window managers to get rid of compositing. I still use xdm and only recently switched away from icewm (because of bitrot) to openbox.

The physical display is still 60 fps. Frankly, CRT displays used to be only 60-80 fps.

I still think that there are much longer (and noticeable) delays in the terminal emulators themselves, dwarfing the compositing and display delays.

So am I the only one left without compositing WM?

Here I am too. I stick to dwm, currently migrating to wmutils because portability, no compositing on my side. Firefox is the only GUI program I use (besides st), and it will probably remain as such since the web has become a chaotic and complex environment, unusable without a major web-browser.

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