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What I'm most interested in is the latency (I guess that's more or less the same as "snappy"). Back when I had a netbook LXDE was one of the few that felt good.
by vanderZwan 5y ago
What I'm most interested in is the latency (I guess that's more or less the same as "snappy"). Back when I had a netbook LXDE was one of the few that felt good.
- iotku 5y agoThere's certainly some added latency in GPU composited desktops so a lot of the time that has an effect with modern desktop environments and/or wayland vs LXDE which as far as I know doesn't run a compositor. I'd love to find some good testing on it somewhere, but I do recall off the top of my head that Windows XP or Windows Vista/7 (with Areo disabled) had significantly lower latency than the GPU accelerated counterparts in Vista+. I believe it has to do a lot with Vsync, but imagine there's some additional overhead involved as well. Of course many would say removing screen tearing is a valid tradeoff there, I mostly agree but not everything is significantly effected by tearing either.