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Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3

Posted Aug 7, 2009 3:39 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3 by quotemstr
Parent article: Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3

Why should Gnome hold back developing and improving it's software to take advantage of modern computers because some people use older, poorly supported hardware?

If they/you/whoever does not want to run decent hardware then you should be prepared to sacrifice having the latest and greatest features. It's not like I am going to try to run a dozen virtualized environments from my netbook or whatever.

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Posted Aug 8, 2009 20:00 UTC (Sat) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

I'm not asking for the latest and greatest. I'm asking for basic functionality on basic hardware without having to use stale software. The latest Linux kernel will still run on a 486SX, although what you can do with it will be limited. Why shouldn't the same apply to graphics chipsets?

Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3

Posted Aug 8, 2009 20:06 UTC (Sat) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]

Because people who work on graphical interface are mostly attention deficit teenagers who still see their computers as video game consoles that also do some other boring stuff that must be made BETTER by making the windows wobble and spin.

And anyone who doesn't see the point in getting graphics cards that cost more than the rest of the system and installing proprietary pound-me-in-the-ass drivers from nVidia are useless Luddites who can go frig off as far as they're concerned.