If you've spent any time using a Wayland session on a modern Linux desktop, you’ve probably noticed it: scrolling in your browser can feel strangely inconsistent. One moment it's buttery smooth, the next it’s jittery and uneven—as if your system forgets how to scroll properly until you nudge it again. Oddly enough, the choppiness tends to creep in when you pause for a few seconds; once you start scrolling again, it smooths out like nothing was ever wrong. It's an intermittent, hard-to-pin-down glitch that dampens the otherwise promising performance gains of Wayland over X11. Another issue seems to be hovering elements where it can take a full second before they highlight but once your browser has "woken up" again it becomes instant.. until it decides to take another nap. I believe it's related to your graphics card's power saving profiles kicking in and disabling. Some have found that if you keep a desktop recording application like obs-studio running the power saving profiles never kick in and it never gets choppy again. For me I just disabled hardware acceleration. It's not a great solution and it can only be described as depressing that we still have this issue half-way through 2025 but it is what it is. I've got 32 cpu cores, I can handle the minimal extra load. To be clear I did, of course, try different browsers. It affected firefox, chromium, brave, vivaldi and.. yuck, chrome itself. I have no idea if a future driver update will fix it but I'm willing to bet it's related to nvidia again. It always seem to be.