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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:20 UTC (Wed) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by juliank
Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Well ARM hardware do have very capable GPUs. What lacks are drivers so people should spend effort on fixing that rather then working around the fact that drivers suck.

A device / OS without working GPU acceleration is just not competitive anymore in 2012/3.

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Posted Nov 23, 2012 10:01 UTC (Fri) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

Sure, devices without GPU acceleration may be non-competitive these days, but the hardware isn't the problem. It's access to good quality drivers that is still and issue. XFCE runs well on everything I have, is well designed, and doesn't call for 3D acceleration everywhere it's not needed (and 3D acceleration is needed precisely never on a desktop).

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 23, 2012 10:36 UTC (Fri) by kigurai (guest, #85475) [Link]

Needed and "darned convenient and pretty" are not the same thing.
I could probably do everything I do in Win 3.11 or CDE, if the applications would run there. I don't NEED anything else, really.
But I WANT a prettier desktop with more functionality.
If you are happy with XFCE, then run XFCE. I tried the Fedora XFCE spin on a netbook quite recently. Quite quickly changed back to Gnome 3 since it works better (for me). Sure, it is slower than XFCE, but it was an acceptable loss to get the added functionality.