On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 02:23 +0930, Tim wrote:
Is a corporation going to want to spend $100 per graphics card per PC, so that the default Gnome 3 actually works, or are they going to continue to only want to put in the $20 graphics card? (That just won't work with the new all-singing, all-dancing, Gnome 3.) So there's the next RHEL with Gnome shot down in flames.
Likewise, the *average* home user faces the same quandary, and most people buy underpowered computers. So that's Fedora out of the question.
I have an "underpowered" computer running integrated Intel graphics (read: the cheapest of the cheap). The open-source Intel drivers work just fine with Gnome 3/Gnome Shell. (Actually, I have more trouble with the NEWER Intel cards, like those on the Sandy Bridge architecture).
Despite how flashy things look, the Gnome folks did a really quite impressive job of limiting the hardware requirements to a very reasonable set of 3D functions that should be present on most machines built in the last four years at least.