Gnome is just about the worst desktop environment to use on an early platform with no accelerated GPU support.
It requires acceleration so is using LLVMpipe to provide OpenGL via the CPU. This is very wasteful.
Just about any other proper window manager would yield superior (and very usable) results.
This jump to GPU reliance (and admittedly Wayland) has been unfortunate during the era of different technologies popping up (i.e WSL, RPi and M1). We would have seen much better results with the traditional display server approach.
But I suppose that is progress. Fix, break, fix, break, fix. Chuck excrement at a wall and see what sticks.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
