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Which Desktop environments do not require 3D acceleration?

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I have two situations in which I need to run desktops without any 3D acceleration. 1) I often run Ubuntu and CentOS VMs on a machine who graphic card does not play nicely with VirtualBox's 3D acceleration (bug in the drivers). 2) Accessing remote sessions This isn't a quick "log in and check something", I could be working at them for hours, and the performance hit from using LLVMpipe really annoys me, so I could really use a Desktop Environment that runs on Modern distros but doesn't require 3D acceleration, but I can't find reliable info easily. So: Which currently maintained, mature, DEs don't require 3D acceleration (note, I'm not asking for an opinion on whether they are any good, I just want a list).
Asked by Ian Sudbery (373 rep)
Oct 20, 2016, 04:35 PM
Last activity: Jul 6, 2018, 11:57 PM