GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance 232
An anonymous reader writes "According to recent benchmarks by Phoronix, using the GNOME Shell will cause a large performance hit when running OpenGL games on Linux. Using Unity and GNOME Shell are also hitting various bugs in the open-source drivers."
GNOME - Making 'fast' computers slow since 1999. (Score:1, Funny)
GNOME - Making 'fast' computers slow since 1999.
Re:Not seeing the downside to this (Score:4, Funny)
> Those who disagree run Windows
And as a first witness I call the infamous "On error resume next" statement in VB.
Re:Memory Hog. (Score:4, Funny)
Gnome shell is the second biggest memory hog on my system. Only below firefox
So Gnome ISN'T using firefox to render its desktop? That must be remedied ASAP!