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No, lack of GPU acceleration. Give me a laptop with sleep and HDMI output that has no 3d acceleration and I will give you back an unusable laptop.
by sneak 19d ago
No, lack of GPU acceleration. Give me a laptop with sleep and HDMI output that has no 3d acceleration and I will give you back an unusable laptop.
- sfdlkj3jk342a 19d agoIf you don't want to play 3d games or run local LLMs, why is GPU acceleration important when you have a more than capable CPU for any desktop UI?
- teaearlgraycold 19d agoDepends on your desktop UI. If you install something like Gnome (as I did with Asahi Linux today on an M3 Air) the animated transitions don’t work. You just get a short frozen period and then it cuts straight to the final state. I could try installing a more barebones DE which has no need for animations.
- spockz 19d agoCan you disable animations completely? At least I could in Gnome. It will become more snappy as a result as well.
- teaearlgraycold 19d agoI did. Still missing the Vulkan support for Zed. But I noticed my WebGL ray marched shaders run quickly - with glitchy artifacts.
- dylanger 19d agoWithout 3D accl basic web browsing can sort of suck, QubesOS has software only rendering and you can really feel it.
- harha 19d agoAnything built on Electron can be super slow- had issues with snap packages of VS Code and Slack being super slow because CPU would render.
- sneak 16d agoNo CPU is sufficient for standard desktop UI these days. All UI is 3d accelerated now. Your statement would have been true 20 years ago.