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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.

edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it's a 5 fps stuttering mess. that's before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

My 10 year-old piece of shit laptop manages to run a full GNOME DE flawlessly, with buttery animations.
You are doing something wrong.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

10 years ago is like the skylake era. sure, those machines are still pretty quick. can't really be directly compared to phones..

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware

I was referring to this statement.

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