2012/1/29 Chow Loong Jin
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On 29/01/2012 23:53, supernova wrote:
> maybe it is because I have intel graphics, but I find gnomeshell
> faster then unity, at first and clean installation I mean. Let's hope
> better for the future...
I have two laptops, one of which runs on the Intel GMA 965/X3100, and another
running on Sandy Bridge graphics. I can safely say that under both of these
conditions, in no case is Mutter faster than Unity. It's probably an issue of
perception and bad press floating around, which can possibly stem from Compiz
being that much more customizable than Mutter.
Then, again, my E-350 APU (AMD 6310 graphics w/ R600g) is tremendously faster in Gnome Shell than Unity. In Gnome Shell I can autoscroll a webpage at a smooth 50-60fps; in Unity, I cannot break past 20-25fps at the same page.
*Everything* is smoother in Gnome Shell: animations, scrolling, the dash animation, the multi-desktop animation. The difference in performance is so visible that I switched away from Unity just for that. Unity animations were so stattery that I would start feeling physically ill after thirty minutes or so.