Yes, that 40% comes from the removal of X11 support.
I don’t know if any of that code even ran in a Wayland session, and makes a difference.
But what it does is take 40% load of the maintainers who can invest their time elsewhere now.
I used unmodified GNOME 40 and 49 for a week. There were few changes, I could absolutely see myself using the older version and not missing much.
In my opinion GNOME 4X is as good as linux DEs get. I would like to see some popular extensions getting official support and native dynamic tiling, but besides that it’s hard to see room for improvement.
Removing X11 is a big deal, but most users won’t see it as such.
Except for removing 40% of the code base in this release.
Is that % real? That’s impressive. Was it the removal of X11? That should make the DE feel lighter, hopefully.
GNOME has a bunch of legacy code… it’s only of the things that has me interested in Cosmic OS. That and Rust, lol.
Yes, that 40% comes from the removal of X11 support.
I don’t know if any of that code even ran in a Wayland session, and makes a difference.
But what it does is take 40% load of the maintainers who can invest their time elsewhere now.
From a non techical user perspective.
I used unmodified GNOME 40 and 49 for a week. There were few changes, I could absolutely see myself using the older version and not missing much.
In my opinion GNOME 4X is as good as linux DEs get. I would like to see some popular extensions getting official support and native dynamic tiling, but besides that it’s hard to see room for improvement.
Removing X11 is a big deal, but most users won’t see it as such.