Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Optimize GNOME For Fast/Modern PCs, Ubuntu 20.10 For Slow/Older PCs

[finalzone]

I'm guessing not so much the distribution, but probably due to the extra extensions that Ubuntu install on their Gnome release by default. Whereas I think Fedora and Debian and others just have a straight setup of Gnome-shell.

Indeed the extra extensions on Ubuntu Gnome session may be the culprit which means the issue still remains specific to the distribution for bundling them. Fedora has a plain Gnome Shell Wayland session in addition on Gnome Classic which includes extensions to mimic the legacy Gnome 2 session. I cannot speak for others distribution as I haven't used them.

[Guest]

Guest You didn’t test 3.34/35 and you clearly didn’t read vanvugt’s blog.

That's because I have no interest in running GNOME, and my experiences with it are incidental.

[Raka555]

How is Arcan coming along ?

[gedgon]

[...] and removing the "performance" label from his merge requests.

That is a gross misinterpretation of what happened and a lie.

It's not a lie, and here's a proof.

The difference w/ and w/o !719 is night and day. FPS for an overview animation @4k w/ GPU clocks forced to the lowest settings:

mutter-3.34.1+27+g85f5db7e7 w/o !719

*** FPS for MetaStage: 31 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 36 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 31 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 31 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 35 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 31 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 31 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 34 ***

mutter-3.34.1+27+g85f5db7e7 w/ !719

*** FPS for MetaStage: 60 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 60 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 61 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 60 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 61 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 60 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 61 ***
*** FPS for MetaStage: 61 ***

So, yeah. This MR definitely doesn't deserves a performance label. /s