Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

[jordan <triplesquarednine gmail com>]

Hey Adam,

> The proprietary driver is almost certainly the problem here. If you try
> a recent Fedora live image you could see if it runs better with nouveau,
> it almost certainly will. (I have a 9400 GT in this system, and Shell
> performance is very good).

nouveau is not capable of running many of my applications very well,
if at all.  that is a complete no-go.
nouveau is not an option, at all.

jordan