GNOME Shell + Mutter Had A Busy November With Some Big Performance Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell + Mutter Had A Busy November With Some Big Performance Optimizations

The GNOME developers were particularly busy last month with various improvements to GNOME Shell and Mutter for increasing the usability of the desktop and optimizing its performance / power-savings...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Shell-Mutter-November

[retardxfce]

Latest 3.35 devel branch is smooth even on old hardware now.

2 cores CPU, iGPU and 2 GB RAM.

Took them 10 years to get to almost gnome 2 smoothness?

[Scellow]

from horrible performance to crap performance, they still have long way to go, and in the meantime people are leaving linux in mass https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

i'm pretty sure ubuntu going gnome 3 encouraged even more people to leave, or maybe that was valve officially announcing giving up on native linux development, in favor of emulating windows lol

[schmidtbag]

Aw crap I'm too late to grab the popcorn! The show "I Hate GNOME!" has already started!

[sarmad]

Latest 3.35 devel branch is smooth even on old hardware now.

I've heard this same statement with 3.28, 3.30, 3.32, and 3.34. Yet, I still get a choppy activities animation (maybe 20~30fps or so) on an Intel HD 620 as soon as I connect a second monitor. If I open a lot of windows (say 12 or so) then it takes almost a second from the time I lift my hand off the Super key till the activities animation start. That is, a second until Gnome kicks off the animation.

[treba]

... in the meantime people are leaving linux in mass https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Ah so people are leaving MacOS even faster. And people migrate from Windows 10 to Windows 7.

[treba]

If I open a lot of windows (say 12 or so) then it takes almost a second from the time I lift my hand off the Super key till the activities animation start. That is, a second until Gnome kicks off the animation.

That one got fixed recently
If your distro doesn't have it by now it will come with 3.34.2

Edit: see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...e_requests/763

Yet, I still get a choppy activities animation (maybe 20~30fps or so) on an Intel HD 620 as soon as I connect a second monitor.

If this is in the Wayland session: yep, unfortunately expected. If everything works out it will get fixed with 3.36. If it's on X11: still will get better with 3.36

[sarmad]

That one got fixed recently
If your distro doesn't have it by now it will come with 3.34.2

Glad to hear that it's a bug rather than a faulty design. Mine is at 3.34.1

If this is in the Wayland session: yep, unfortunately expected. If everything works out it will get fixed with 3.36. If it's on X11: still will get better with 3.36

Hmm.. actually I tried Wayland and it seems noticeably smoother than X11. It actually is smooth with Wayland. Are people referring to Wayland as their reference when they mention performance improvements?
Unfortunately I can't switch to Wayland yet as I need screen sharing functionality which, last I heard, is still not supported in Wayland by most of the apps.

[You-]

I've heard this same statement with 3.28, 3.30, 3.32, and 3.34. Yet, I still get a choppy activities animation (maybe 20~30fps or so) on an Intel HD 620 as soon as I connect a second monitor. If I open a lot of windows (say 12 or so) then it takes almost a second from the time I lift my hand off the Super key till the activities animation start. That is, a second until Gnome kicks off the animation.

AFAIK there was a hard coded delay in starting the animations. it didnt matter how fast your CPU/Graphics were the delay was still there.

As for the animation itself (the swarm), this cycle they are planning to work on the app display screens so hopefully there will be much improvement there.

[Charlie68]

Aw crap I'm too late to grab the popcorn! The show "I Hate GNOME!" has already started!

Do you really think that GNU / Linux users are players? A very small part, on my Steam PCs I don't even install it under torture!