I was not necessarily talking about performance when mentioning JS. It was the memory leak. Gnome performs "fine?" at bootup, but starts becoming sluggish as yo

I was not necessarily talking about performance when mentioning JS. It was the memory leak. Gnome performs "fine?" at bootup, but starts becoming sluggish as you use it because their JS interpreter doesn't automatically have GC. This kind of behaviour is fine for websites since nobody really uses it for an extended period. But for a desktop (which I for once, use for quite long stretches) is unacceptable. I've had cases where I had to forcefully reboot the machine because gnome froze. Even if you ignore the memory leak (and say that it's being fixed) I would argue that the overall latency of the desktop is just not there. I have used xfce, gnome3, unity7, kde, mate and budgie (daily driver) on the same machine, with the same Intel iGPU Mesa driver; gnome3 is the most sluggish. The time it takes for stuff to happen on the screen from when I press a button is quite high for my taste. P.S. I usually disable animations. The design of the desktop is definitely unique and admittedly refreshing to see (except the hamburger menus). However, the sluggishness just makes it impossible for me to use.