![]() Every few months I try to get Heads working but haven't succeed.One of these distributions is Tails, based on Debian Testing. I have never used Tails due to the nonfree kernel. I'd prefer to disable the animations entirely, but this is good enough that I could use GNOME on Tails if I had to, assuming it performs similarly. Perhaps GNOME is able to determine when eye candy is getting in the way of functionality and simplify the animations accordingly. However, after a while GNOME started dropping some of the animations that were slowing everything down and updating the screen instantly in these situations. At first using the search bar was extremely slow because after each character typed it took close to a second to update the search results, and toggling the grid of applications took several seconds. Something interesting happened with the dash. Opening windows and switching workspaces is a little slow, but it is not as bad as I remember from Trisquel 7. As long as I don't use the dash, everything works pretty smoothly. With nothing open except for gnome-system-monitor and one Abrowser tab, I am only using 1.3GB. I was mistaken about RAM usage being the problem. If I ever require Tails, I can probably get by with a tty. Given how important it is for some people to use Tor, and that Tails is the distro that the Tor Project has chosen to support, I wish they were able to provide at least one other DE as an alternative to the default, but I understand why they don't. There is certainly nothing wrong with taking advantage of the capabilities of newer hardware, and because GNOME is very easy to learn how to use I understand why many distros use it as their default. I have 2GB of RAM, which is not quite enough for GNOME to run well, but I know that 2GB is not very much compared to what many people have, and I'm sure that 4GB would be plenty. Perhaps the situation has improved in later versions of GNOME than the version included in 16.04. If this had not been the case, he likely would have stuck with the free Nouveau driver I had helped him install. ![]() My friend who runs GNOME on Ubuntu 16.04 installed the proprietary Nvidia driver for his GPU because the animations in GNOME were extremely slow and choppy. What I should have said is that on some machines GNOME can perform rather poorly unless the proper GPU driver is installed. ![]() If I had, I would have been more careful not to make it sound like this is still the case. I did not realize until now that GNOME 3 used to require 3D acceleration in order to run at all. ![]()
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