On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Raphaël Jacquot <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 9 nov. 2012, at 16:56, Matthias Clasen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > last weekend, the release team met and discussed (among other things)
> > the DropOrFixFallbackMode [1] feature. We've come to the conclusion
> > that we can't maintain fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are
> > better off dropping it. We're now working on organizing this so that
> > it does not create more unnecessary fallout.
>
> I don't talk often on this list, for lack of available time, but have the
> following to say :
>
> 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.
>
> now the REAL question is :
> Is the Gnome community NO BETTER than Microsoft at forcing Hardware
> Upgrades ?
>

Hey!  Long time no talk, hope all is well.

GNOME shell should work on any graphics card 5 years or older.  We should
have good data backing this up as I know that Fedora has done QA on a
number of hardware to test gnome-shell in order to know what hardware
profiles shell will work on.

I read many testimonials where shell has worked nicely on netbooks which
don't have good 3D hardware.  A the very least, llvmpipe makes software
rendering work fairly well on older hardware without a 3D card.

sri

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