Enlightenment is actually a very nice DE with reasonable hardware requirements. It'd be nice to have it as an option in the installer. On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:28:56 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:03:54 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > >> > >> My main objection to GNOME as the default desktop environment is > >> that it *requires* 3D graphics acceleration from the X driver, > >> ... > > > > Not quite true. On graphics hardware which doesn't provide 3D > > acceleration, gnome-shell falls back to use llvmpipe, which provides > > software-rendering on most hardware. > > Apparently, this is a new development. I used GNOME when it was the > default at GNOME 2. Then, when GNOME 3 first came out, it required > 3D acceleration, but had a fallback mode for hardware that didn't > support it. I continued to use GNOME 3 in fallback mode. Then, > at some point, they eliminated fallback mode; and my desktop became > totally unusable. At that point, I switched from GNOME to XFCE; > and I haven't tried GNOME again since, even when using hardware > that supports 3D acceleration. > > *Requiring* 3D for a DE, whether from the hardware or via software > emulation, is a bad idea, IMO. > -- John Holland jholland@vin-dit.org gpg public key ID 0x9551CF2D
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