Tim via users writes:
Tim:
>> I find this just crazy. Why should just the desktop interface
>> require a beefy graphics card? I use Mate because of that
>> silliness.
Samuel Sieb:
> It doesn't need to be beefy. Pretty much any video card made in the
> last 10 years should work. Since the capability is there, why not
> use it to make the desktop work better?
Yeah, right. Slowly opening menus, slowly spinning desktop cubes,
hover and wait before continuing, splash screens and other animations
that delay me doing something "make it work better"?
I agree. Having said that: if Gnome wants to target the power user, with the
latest high-end video hardware, the kind who follows the latest UI trends,
then I see nothing wrong with that, with Gnome becoming a boutique,
specialty UI that targets a specific userbase.
Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively Gnome and
KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in order to ditch X,
and also target the same userbase. This won't happen anytime soon, but it
will happen.