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GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance

Posted by Soulskill on from the frame-job dept.

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."

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  1. GNOME - Making 'fast' computers slow since 1999. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    GNOME - Making 'fast' computers slow since 1999.

  2. Re:Not seeing the downside to this by lucm · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Those who disagree run Windows

    And as a first witness I call the infamous "On error resume next" statement in VB.

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    lucm, indeed.
  3. Re:Memory Hog. by multi+io · · Score: 3, 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!