> My computer handles gnome 3 shell perfectly even tho I think gnome 3 came
out after it was made.
Whether or not a program works well on your hardware has nothing to do with
how old or new the program is. New software is perfectly capable of being
lightweight, and old software is perfectly capable of being bloated.
> I am not able to have transparency in my gnome terminal. What do I need to
do to get this?
You can't. That feature was removed from GNOME Terminal some time ago (I want
to say for GNOME 3.10). I don't remember for sure what the reason was, but I
want to say that it was because the code that allowed transparency wasn't
very good (caused performance issues or something).