> No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice. I always used other desktop environments like LXDE /

> No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice. I always used other desktop environments like LXDE / LXQT. The speed difference you mention was one of the reasons. But now my HDMI port only works under Wayland. So now I use Gnome3 (under sufferance). The difference between speed difference between Wayland and X11 is so big, it blows away the speed improvement LXQT gets you, so Gnome3 is actually faster than the rest now. I presume that will change when more Desktop environments move to Wayland, but for now that's the reality.