Some stick with Unity due to GNOME stuttering

Apr 29, 2020 18:03 GMT  ·  By

Ubuntu 20.04 has recently been released with GNOME 3.36 as one of the most notable features, but many decided to stick with Unity due to a stuttering issue.

It goes without saying this isn’t necessarily the experience everyone expected with GNOME, albeit for now, this stuttering bug appears to be more or less a matter of luck.

While some encounter this glitch, other claim everything is super-smooth on their devices in Ubuntu 20.04.

The good news is that the stuttering bug has already been acknowledged and a fix is on its way.

A bug report reveals that the whole thing happens randomly on a device that should otherwise offer smooth performance from one end to another.

“I have a Dell XPS 9360 with a FHD screen and a Intel HD620 iGPU, running Ubuntu 20.04. On this system animations should be smooth and at 60fps, but this is not always the case. The applications animation (the icons coming from the bottom left) is specially stuttery most of the time. Sometimes it is buttery smooth, but most of the times it is not. It is difficult to pinpoint when,” the bug report reads.

Fix already on its way

For the time being, there’s still no ETA as to when the fix could land, but the good news is that the bug has already been acknowledged, so a patch is likely rather sooner than later.

There’s not much you can do right now, other than try to find what’s causing the stuttering yourselves. Some believe the issue is in one way or another related to the Intel hardware in their devices, while others suggest it’s something that’s linked with the software installed on the computer.

The issue seems to be happening both on devices upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and those where a clean install was performed.