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If 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?
by sfdlkj3jk342a 1mo ago
If 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 1mo 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 1mo agoCan you disable animations completely? At least I could in Gnome. It will become more snappy as a result as well.
- teaearlgraycold 1mo agoI did. Still missing the Vulkan support for Zed. But I noticed my WebGL ray marched shaders run quickly - with glitchy artifacts.
- dylanger 1mo agoWithout 3D accl basic web browsing can sort of suck, QubesOS has software only rendering and you can really feel it.
- harha 1mo 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 27d 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.