Re: GNOME 3.8 and the "new" Classic Mode using 3D acceleration

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Thank you, I hope so. I'll soon try the live CD if I can find one[2].

BTW: I understand what you're meaning using the Windows example, but we
all know, despite that, we wouldn't install Windows, because it's not
free/open source. Only short minded people (and people who are new to
computers I guess) don't mind this important fact.

[2] https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

On 03/28/2013 12:58 PM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:22:44PM +0100, . wrote:
> > So now that GNOME 3.8 has "Classic Mode"[1] I'll see how loud my
> > notebook's fan gets, since from the picture it seems that it uses 3D
> > acceleration. 3D acceleration was always something which gets my (and my
> > friends') notebook fan very loud and decreases battery time. 3D for
> > desktop, at least for older notebooks, is unnecessary (I don't know if
> > Sandy/Ivy Bridge notebook are louder too when using 3D). 
> GNOME uses only the most basic features of a GPU. There is no reason
> that this would noticeably increase the power usage. I assume you're
> using the nouveau drivers. They lack the ability to control the fan,
> etc. If you'd use a recent Windows version on the same laptop you'd
> notice that with the same hardware and more graphical effects, the power
> usage will be better than GNOME 2.x.