GNOME 3.31.2 Desktop Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME 3.31.2 Desktop Released

GNOME 3.31.2 is out this Friday as the latest development release in the trek towards next March's GNOME 3.32 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.31.2-Released

[uid313]

Can GNOME run on Wayland without XWayland yet?

[tildearrow]

Can GNOME run on Wayland without XWayland yet?

And is it totally rewritten in Rust?
Does it run on Redox? Under RISC-V on a container?

Erm, I think not really, but there is some progress: https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n...idding-Old-X11

[pracedru]

The performance optimisations are about the most important thing for Gnome now i think.
I love using gnome, but the performance is just not very good. Lots of stuttering and a high memory consumption.
I really love the direction they are taking and i feel like my efficiency is high when working in Gnome.
So i wish they would dedicate an entire release to optimize performance.

[kaprikawn]

Nautilus on my machine has started to take ages to open, probably like ~20 seconds, I hope this release fixes that

[halo9en]

Nautilus on my machine has started to take ages to open, probably like ~20 seconds, I hope this release fixes that

Weird... Check your logs with journalctl. It opens instantaneously on this old laptop.

[alqm]

The performance optimisations are about the most important thing for Gnome now i think.
I love using gnome, but the performance is just not very good. Lots of stuttering and a high memory consumption.
I really love the direction they are taking and i feel like my efficiency is high when working in Gnome.
So i wish they would dedicate an entire release to optimize performance.

+1
What kind of hardware can run GNOME smoothly?
I've tried 3 different modern Intel graphics computers and all run GNOME poorly. I wonder what hardware can run it. AMD? NVIDIA? An i7-latest generation only? Because Intel graphics can't.

[uid313]

And is it totally rewritten in Rust?
Does it run on Redox? Under RISC-V on a container?

Don't really care so much for Rust in application software. Its more interesting in interpreters, parsers, and decoders.

Don't care so much for RISC-V on application software either (though it would be cool if Android had support for RISC-V), I find RISC-V support to be most interesting in toolchain, GCC, Android Things, Python and maybe .NET Core, things you would use for IoT.

[discordian]

+1
What kind of hardware can run GNOME smoothly?
I've tried 3 different modern Intel graphics computers and all run GNOME poorly. I wonder what hardware can run it. AMD? NVIDIA? An i7-latest generation only? Because Intel graphics can't.

As someone who just switched from a Nvidia 770 to a and 570, I have to say: guess again.
Gnome is a slow, chugging mess whatever you use. It got really unbearable after adding a second monitor, of course the zealots will blame everything but the DE. Switching to the blessed open source otherwise second-league hardware from amd made little difference.

[bwat47]

The performance optimisations are about the most important thing for Gnome now i think.
I love using gnome, but the performance is just not very good. Lots of stuttering and a high memory consumption.
I really love the direction they are taking and i feel like my efficiency is high when working in Gnome.
So i wish they would dedicate an entire release to optimize performance.

Yep, I actually really like gnome but the performance is such a deal breaker. For now I use MATE, hoping some day gnome-shell gets it's performance issues figured out