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Gnome 3 sucks without good graphics drivers, it's very laggy and feels heavy. On my laptop with Radeon HD 3200 using the open source drivers (from Fedora 19) i

by Nux 13y ago

Gnome 3 sucks without good graphics drivers, it's very laggy and feels heavy. On my laptop with Radeon HD 3200 using the open source drivers (from Fedora 19) it's hardly usable and spins the hell out of the fans. Thanks god for MATE.

rbanffy 13y ago
Running it on an Atom with Intel graphics here (netbook driving decent monitor). Works well as long as I don't have three open Gmail tabs. The Radeon drivers must be terrible.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  I bopped around in it for a few minutes on my Atom/Intel graphics EeePC and found it unbearably heavyweight compared to Awesome. I don't know what they are doing wrong, but merely interacting with a bunch of xterms with it was unbearable. Maybe you are just use to it.
  - rbanffy 13y ago
    It sure feels heavy compared to CDE or twm either, but that's hardly fair.
    - jlgreco 13y ago
      I think it is eminently fair. It isn't performing a fundamentally different task, but it stutters and burns lower powered machines up.
- qwerta 13y ago
  Radeon opensource drivers are just fine. KDE with composite WM runs smoothly. Sometimes I play heavy games with Wine (Civ4, Stalker...). And did I mention resolution: 3000x1600
Jasper_ 13y ago
We're always trying to work better with graphics drivers, and I personally wrote a bunch of of patches this cycle to help with performance. If you're still having issues, please file bugs with the radeon driver and with us. I also sit twenty feet from the the lead radeon driver developer, so I'll ask him tomorrow if there's anything we can do to help him out.