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Re:I like Gnome Shell by aortega on Sunday November 11, 2012 @07:12PM (#4771070)
You still are talking about a x86 architecture with a discrete GPU. It would be nice if it worked fast with no GPU at all like Gnome 2 did, so it can be used in Virtual machines, OSes with crappy drivers (*BSDs), weird architectures (MIPS, ARM, etc.)

Gnome 3 sacrificed all that compatibility to gain some nices graphics, I think it's not worth it.

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Re:I like Gnome Shell by Andrex on Monday November 12, 2012 @01:55AM (#4771891)
It doesn't require a GPU for hardware acceleration anymore, Gnome 3.6 uses LLVM for hardware where GPU acceleration isn't available.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxM...

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Re:I like Gnome Shell by aortega on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:18AM (#4776735)
So it in case you don't have a GPU, it only requires a huge assload of CPU to work.

Why not turn the damn effects off? it is that hard?

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