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This is actually pretty huge, props to the GNOME developers for this.
Hopefully VR support will improve on linux, literally the only reason I keep a windows drive around is for vr and nothing more.
Yup, this is huge. Wayland gaming is now a possibility. With Explicit Sync (needed for NVIDIA users) and VRR, there's now no excuse to keep gaming in X11 in both DEs.
it has been possible for quite some time now
In KDE, I agree. I have an AMD video card and I've been gaming in KDE Wayland for quite a while now.
In Gnome too. I've been doing it.
Yes, no VRR (by default anyway) was a mild inconvenience, but it doesn't exactly make games unplayable. It's not like everybody hated gaming before gsync/freesync became widespread.
For me, VRR is crucial as I play a lot of FPS games or else, I don't feel that the mouse is the extension of my hand. That's why I switched from Gnome to KDE.