moil...@gmail.com writes: > Gnome Shell has worked a long time the best with FREEDOM FRIENDLY > graphics, that is Intel Graphics, which have Free Drivers developed > mainly by Intel. > > Period.
What about the rest? My desktop machine that I am currently not using lacks 3D. My laptop (Thinkapd X60), which is my daily machine since few months has Intel card and so what? As lucky and grateful we should be for such hardware, these cards are only available on laptops. I think they are not mainstream. Correct me if I am wrong. Before the software rendering effort developed by the Fedora project, Gnome Shell was unusable in almost the entire free software ecosystem without proprietary software for the 3D rendering part. My opinion is that requiring 3D, especially knowing the state of the drivers and support in terms of free software and freedom, it was wrong decision made by GNOME (Shell). Especially for a GNU package, because don't forget that the G in GNOME stands for GNU. I personally discovered too late about this issue. Honestly, I feel a little bit betrayed. A person cannot always buy new hardware and is not able to replace it in all cases. So, excuse me, but it is not simply period. I personally will keep nagging about this issue. It is simply wrong to demand 3D for the purpose to just move some windows, show shiny things and eye-candy, and do cool/"cool" stuff in the core of a GUI, without being able to stop it. Wrong wrong wrong. Wrong!
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