> The decision is all nice and well. however this will force people that don't > have the latest and greatest accelerated hardware to switch to something > else. most PCs that are more that 2 years old are probably out of the game. I am typing this from a five and a half years old Macbook running GNOME 3.4. GNOME Shell runs just fine and has always been that way since I first installed it when GNOME 3.0 came out. I have never used anything else on this laptop. I used to try out the GNOME Shell snapshots during the pre-3.0 days on some cheap Intel netbook that the university gave us. Never used it for too long, but I recall that it ran reasonably well. I have also ran GNOME 3.x with GNOME Shell on a 2nd hand Thinkpad x60 that I have. Runs surprisingly well for such an old laptop. Cheers, Debarshi -- There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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