On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:46 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently > no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D > acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is > apparently unusable with such an X driver. > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > default desktop for the production jessie installer. > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell > : :' : > `. `'` > `- > >
Although I am not sure if XFCE or LXDE is good or bad, I am kind of agree with your opinion about the usability under such an free X driver. According to Debian's policy, Debian is an organization that highly respects completely free software, including kernel and firmwares. However, currently, most hardware which support 3D acceleration require non-free firmware or even non-free proprietary driver. I am still a new user, and don't know if we can report a bug to Debian to say that, GNOME SHELL or Foo Desktop Environment is not usable under 2D free video card driver or such. Actually, I hope Debian can patch those DE, free drivers, and so on, to keep Debian to be modern, beautiful, and also highly support free drivers. Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386285853.4951.11.camel@debian-bo
