GNOME 3.31.2 Desktop Released

[halo9en]

What kind of hardware can run GNOME smoothly?
I've tried 3 different modern Intel graphics computers and all run GNOME poorly. I wonder what hardware can run it. AMD? NVIDIA? An i7-latest generation only? Because Intel graphics can't.

My laptops are intel graphics only and not even too recent - here Gnome works perfectly. Maybe Windows is better for you.

[Candy]

No offense people! But you don't expect GNOME to run like a dream on your ancient systems - do you ?
New Hardware is cheap these days. Make sure to get a proper CPU, RAM and SSD.

[Vistaus]

And is it totally rewritten in Rust?
Does it run on Redox? Under RISC-V on a container?

Erm, I think not really, but there is some progress: https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n...idding-Old-X11

Can't you force-disable XWayland somehow, with a compiler flag or something? Yes, I know the experience would be far less good, but just out of curiosity, I'm wondering if it's possible at all to force-disable XWayland.

[Vistaus]

Don't really care so much for Rust in application software. Its more interesting in interpreters, parsers, and decoders.

Don't care so much for RISC-V on application software either (though it would be cool if Android had support for RISC-V), I find RISC-V support to be most interesting in toolchain, GCC, Android Things, Python and maybe .NET Core, things you would use for IoT.

You missed the point he was trying to make.

[Vistaus]

No offense people! But you don't expect GNOME to run like a dream on your ancient systems - do you ?
New Hardware is cheap these days. Make sure to get a proper CPU, RAM and SSD.

I have a 2018 Lenovo ThinkPad L380 Yoga with Intel i5, 8 GB of RAM and a fast SSD, yet GNOME runs like crap. Is my hardware recent and proper enough for ya?

[Candy]

Intel i5, 8 GB of RAM

I bolded the two problems of your setup. Try at least i7 and 32gb RAM.

[Guest]

Apart from nautilus reaching 300MB after two days, my tweaked/patched Gnome installation is very polished at the moment. Gnome-shell doesn't use much memory anymore.

[discordian]

I bolded the two problems of your setup. Try at least i7 and 32gb RAM.

I qouted the problem of why the Linux Desktop wont ever not-suck and be forever stuck in the denial phase. Any 200€ Atom system running Windows will run cycles around even such a system when it comes to responsiveness.

[finalzone]

I bolded the two problems of your setup. Try at least i7 and 32gb RAM.

No need. I had a 2GB Ram Core Duo Laptop running smooth. The issue is mainly a possible misconfiguration from application or daemon.

[finalzone]

The performance optimisations are about the most important thing for Gnome now i think.
I love using gnome, but the performance is just not very good. Lots of stuttering and a high memory consumption.

Would you provide your hardware information and which distribution are you using?
Would you also provide a the memory status from either Gnome Monitor or Gnome Usage?
Running Gnome Shell from Fedora 29 on HP Envy x360 2500U is actually smooth experience.