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What I really like about #GNOME46 is that it turned out to be a great release for old and low-end devices. One of my test devices is Thinkpad T400. That hardware is over 15 years old and actually got faster over the last few years - especially this release.

One of my favorite improvements here, headed by Christian Hergert, was the boost to VTE. Terminals using #gtk4 are now much faster and responsive. I mean, damn, even switching tabs doesn't trigger a full redraw!

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Seirdy
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Huh, I wish I could say that’s been my experience. My 2013 laptop has been getting faster until a bit after 2020. New media codecs and security mitigations really tanked its performance (though the former saved me quite a bit of disk space).
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Robert Mader
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@Seirdy When it comes to the web I must agree - even though that device probably has H264 decoding - and you can force websites like youtube to use that via extensions like (enhanced-)h264ify (and on yt specifically disabling ambient mode helps a lot here).

I also would like to point out that I came to enjoy a bunch of native apps more and more. Such as Shortwave, (Gnome-)Podcasts, Fractal, Tuba etc.

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vp9 actually got partial hwdec support several years in which saved some battery, and dav1d eventually got really good hand-optimized assembly for AVX/AVX2 support. Neither really compares to H.264 when it comes to decoding performance, though.
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