• eneff@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    My 10 year-old piece of shit laptop manages to run a full GNOME DE flawlessly, with buttery animations.
    You are doing something wrong.

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      2 days ago

      10 years ago is like the skylake era. sure, those machines are still pretty quick. can’t really be directly compared to phones…

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        18 hours ago

        My Rockchip 3399 powered former Chromebook (now running proper Linux) from 2017 runs Gnome smoothly with Wayland, not with Xorg.

        That’s reasonable to directly compare with phones from 2017; it’s slower than a Pixel 2. Mine actually benchmarks a little slower than the reference board linked here.

        It isn’t working as it should be if it doesn’t run smoothly on more powerful hardware, but it’s not necessarily a matter of the end user “doing something wrong”. Sometimes it takes effort to get a particular combination of hardware and software to run smoothly even though it should work.

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        2 days ago

        Gnome that I can’t make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware

        I was referring to this statement.