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I always wondered how modern desktop UIs seemed to feel so much slower than, say, Windows 95 did even though the hardware was so much better. When I first turn
by udp 10y ago
I always wondered how modern desktop UIs seemed to feel so much slower than, say, Windows 95 did even though the hardware was so much better.
When I first turned off the compositor, even just dragging a window around the screen was an amazing experience. I now have it disabled everywhere, and I much prefer the occasional afterimage trail than adding a noticeable rendering delay to everything for the sake of a semitransparent terminal.
- bitwize 10y agoOr can use Wayland, and get lag-free compositing! Yay!
- untoreh 10y agoThat's prob caused by crappy config of whatever compositor you tried, compositors use GPU which adds latency, for example Compton using openglx backend is quite slow but if you add copyonbuffermesa it gets as responsive as CPU rendering,at least in my case, it obvs depends on the vga