Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> writes:
On 15/07/13 07:28, David Zuccaro wrote:
What don't you like about gnome? It has a widget for multiple time zones; it does take a while to boot up but I configure auto-login so I just turn the machine on then do some quick chore while the machine is booting up.
What was the last version of GNOME you used?!
Fedora 19 with GNOME 3.8 boots from GRUB to fully functional desktop in under 10 seconds for me on both my laptop and desktop.
When I tested GNOME3 as at Debian 7 on an Atom D5xx, it took longer than that just to decide whether to enter fallback mode. Removing gnome-shell &c and only leaving the fallback session made it go from xdm to desktop noticably faster. I noticed Windows has a magic "user experience" number, based on how "good" the hardware components are. That lets them say "oh, you're trying to run the fancy minimize animation, but your UX number is only 3.7 -- that's not expected to work". Maybe GNOME should have that.