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by livre 1864 days ago
>IME: hardware accelerated UI toolkits are very slow on all but the largest/newest computers.

This has been my experience too with an old GMA GPU, I have to keep disabling hardware acceleration in everything I try to run (browsers, electron apps if possible, desktop environments). The UI runs order of magnitude faster on the CPU than on the GPU through OpenGL.
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garaetjjte 1864 days ago
I don't think these anachronistic comparisons make any sense. GMA might do OGL2.1 at best, it won't work well with software with modern assumptions. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't use GPU at all and falls back to software OGL renderer.
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livre 1864 days ago
It tries to do hardware rendering, I had to force software rendering due to artifacts and messed up colors in addition to slow rendering.
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