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2D Also Bad For Ubuntu Unity Against KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce

For the cairo-perf-trace test there are more numbers to show just how much better SNA can do than UXA in some 2D workloads, but this test profile isn't impaired by the desktop choice since it's not actually drawing out to the screen.