Comment 30 for bug 863154

Here I finally ended to remove all , even if updating Xorg edgers and use last Nouveau driver solved my problems, the performance of painting were horrible. Also very slow painting strokes in _all_ 2D programs....

I fallback to a Linux Mint 11 Katya main , based on Natty system with a downgraded compiz ( http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/how-to-downgrade-to-compiz-086-in.html ) and a downgraded Xorg ( sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=2:1.10.1-1ubuntu1 ) . So a version in between Maverick and Natty , compatible with Natty Ppa :) Works perfectly and damn fast. My laptop will be ready for the conferences I have to do next weeks.

I also get issue with lake of customization / functionality with new Gnome 3 ( I liked the base GUI, and ergonomy , btw ) ; it makes me use too much terminal / GSettings / Tweaks and various code to access to basic customization where Gnome 2 series were fast and mostly GUI tweaks. ( login screen/ place icons on the dockbar/ nautilus script / startup script / etc.... ) So, I felt a real regression. I don't blame Gnome team, new product is young compare to old 9 years old one, and there is very good job in the 3. I blame modern distribution who pack it while it's not a ready solution... imo.