11 ms·
Why is accelerated graphics mandatory? I'd think most non-gaming, non-graphics-heavy apps would do fine with the CPU.
by dtgriscom 4y ago
Why is accelerated graphics mandatory? I'd think most non-gaming, non-graphics-heavy apps would do fine with the CPU.
- skydhash 4y agoMost desktop nowadays have a compositor that rely on the gpu to render nice effects like blur, transparency, animations (including keeping the content of the window while dragging).
- neurostimulant 4y agoElectron apps (and other apps that uses Chromium Embedded Framework) are commonplace these days and they requires GPU acceleration. They'll crash if launched on system without gpu acceleration. Sure you can pass a command line argument to disable gpu acceleration to those apps (e.g. `--disable-gpu` on most electron apps and `--no-zygote` on apps that use chrome embedded framework like spotify), but you can't expect average users to know how to do that.