update for posterity: windows seem to open in some kind of a logical fashion, so they use all the available real estate of the screen dynamically. its pretty cool! generally i prefer it cuz i never have to move new windows out of the way. but it would be nice to have a setting to remember some windows in a fixed position. as is the case w gnome lately many such settings are hidden/removed for the sake of simplicity. cheerz!
speed seems irrelevant if windows cant be arranged lol. google is coming up empty. is this a bug?