[konchunas]

Contrary to release notes latest Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 20.04 is slower on my machine compared to the previous one in 19.10. That's why I switched to XFCE which is super snappy. Not i3 snappy, but really close. I've also experienced increased startup time with Snap, Flatpak and AppImages regardless of DE.

[Dayshine]

> Not i3 snappy

i3 isn't even snappy, the default application launcher can take up to 10 seconds to open on my old laptop.

There is a faster application launcher you can use instead, but you have to hunt through github issues to find out about it. The i3 project maintainers seem to actively object to telling users about 3rd party components and simultaneously refuse to integrate them or improve the default behaviour.

[snazz]

Are you talking about dmenu? That's always been fast on my machine (sway, not i3).

[Dayshine]

Yup, although it's i3 not dmenu causing the problem.

https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/949

Reported 7 years ago...

[NullPrefix]

Are you talking about dmenu?

[Grumbledour]

I find Gnome in general to be terribly bloated. There are so many other options on linux that get you minimal looking desktops without eating your resources in the background.

Of course, the problem is often that with other options some assembly is probably required. But looking at the mess gnome extensions are, that might actually be not that much of a difference.

[microtonal]

That must be some Ubuntu-related issue, GNOME 3.26 on Wayland on NixOS is as snappy as it always was. Pretty much everything is instant.