GNOME Shell + Mutter See Changes For Tracking Software Rendering, VNC To Toggle Animations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell + Mutter See Changes For Tracking Software Rendering, VNC To Toggle Animations

GNOME Shell and Mutter saw a set of patches land today for GNOME 3.36 that have been around for a few months and deal with the tracking of software rendering and VNC usage where GNOME Shell should in turn disable animations to ease the rendering workload...

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

[Britoid]

Another nice one from GNOME, the default Linux desktop.

Nice contributions from Canonical, Red Hat, Endless.


It was my turn.

[ssokolow]

Another nice one from GNOME, the default Linux desktop.

Nice contributions from Canonical, Red Hat, Endless.


It was my turn.

...and I suppose it's my turn to be the other side of the exchange. Ahem...

"default Linux desktop" is a good moniker for GNOME. Unixy operating systems have a long tradition of having garbage defaults that you're supposed to change, reinvent, or monkey-patch. That's half of what the UNIX Hater's Handbook was about. Hell, Unixy OSes have a long tradition of the trashiest stuff being the stuff that big companies took a vested interest in.

[rastersoft]

"default Linux desktop" is a good moniker for GNOME. Unixy operating systems have a long tradition of having garbage defaults that you're supposed to change, reinvent, or monkey-patch. That's half of what the UNIX Hater's Handbook was about. Hell, Unixy OSes have a long tradition of the trashiest stuff being the stuff that big companies took a vested interest in.

Sorry, but the best part of that book was the anti-foreword, written by Dennis Ritchie himself :-P

[Britoid]

popcon probably isn't the best source, due to how the votes are counted. Polls are a more accurate representation of what people actually like and use voluntarily:

• https://distrowatch.com/polls.php?poll=1
• https://slashdot.org/poll/2751/which...-like-the-best
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...u_use_on_your/

Note Reddit's relatively higher GNOME usage. It figures that Redditards would use GNOME.

I seem to remember seeing a poll done by Fedora with similar results, but I can't find it.

I'd be shocked if Fedora showed anything other than GNOME as the highest, given that it's regarded as the GNOME-reference distro.

[royce]

popcon probably isn't the best source, due to how the votes are counted. Polls are a more accurate representation of what people actually like and use voluntarily:

• https://distrowatch.com/polls.php?poll=1
• https://slashdot.org/poll/2751/which...-like-the-best
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...u_use_on_your/

Note Reddit's relatively higher GNOME usage. It figures that Redditards would use GNOME.

I seem to remember seeing a poll done by Fedora with similar results, but I can't find it.

Anecdotally, whenever it is I see people using a Linux desktop in the wild, it tends to be stock Ubuntu whatever - it's very easy to recognise. People don't even bother changing the background image, adding extra apps to the dock. Let alone experiment with other desktop environments.

Anecdote != data

[lumks]

I don't get why you talk at all about this…

• Ubuntu comes with Gnome, probably the biggest Linux desktop distro out there
• Fedora and the whole RedHat tree default to Gnome, if it comes to desktop at all

Just these 2 parts alone would make Gnome to *the* Linux desktop.

But then you have

• for almost every distro an "official" Gnome respin
• the most desktops are based on Gnome in some way
• "nonfree-app" 3rd party support mostly targets Gnome

So if you think there is something even close, you really have to provide some good sources.

[Nth_man]

He already did it. Default software doesn't mean more used software, if that were the case, Microsoft Explorer, or Edge, would be the most used web browsers.

[Nth_man]

r/kde: 40.7k members

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=kde

r/gnome: 33.8k members

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=gnome

[Dea1993]

GNOME is an objectively bad desktop environment, used exclusively by brainlets.

then you should use it